Tamale Water Fund (TWF) to tackle perennial water shortages in Tamale
By Divine Adongo
Regional Economic Planning Officer, NRCC, Alhaji Abukari Inusah
As we all know, water is a scarce resource. It is even predicted that by 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas, a situation that has a very high potential of erupting extreme poverty across the world.
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) (2017/18) indicates that access to basic drinking water in the Northern Region stands at 50%, nonetheless, there is increasing demand by households, agriculture and industry, and the impacts of climate change have also contributed to putting water under extreme threat.
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Another rainstorm disaster in the Savannah Region has rendered about 700 residents from three communities homeless with several properties worth thousands of cedis destroyed.
The affected communities include, Yapei, Sangkpala and Kusawgu all in the Central Gonja District.
According to Central Gonja District Operation Officer, Alhandu Alhassan, officials from the district office have been on the ground assessing the level of destruction to enable them to reach out to the victims.
“In fact, each of these affected three communities has suffered a great loss of properties because many of their homes have their roofs ripped off and foodstuffs destroyed. But no injuries have been recorded for now.”