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Further to the directive by H.E The President of the Republic on the extension of Free Water Services within lifeline consumption of 0-5m
3 per household in a month, the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), and Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) wish to inform the general public that the directive comes into force immediately. The guidelines for implementation are as follows:
Water Services Providers within Rural Communities and Small Towns
This Free Water guidelines cover water services providers (WSPs) within Rural Communities and Small Towns as follows:
DATE: 6 TH JANUARY, 2021
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GUIDELINES FOR THE EXTENSION OF FREE WATER TO CUSTOMERS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES AND SMALL TOWNS FROM JANUARY–MARCH 2021
Further to the directive by H.E The President of the Republic on the extension of Free Water Services within lifeline consumption of 0-5m 3 per household in a month, the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), and Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) wish to inform the general public that the directive comes into force immediately.
The guidelines for implementation are as follows: Water Services Providers within Rural Communities and Small Towns
This Free Water guidelines cover water services providers (WSPs) within Rural Communities and Small Towns as follows:
CWSA reminds service providers of end of free water package
Community Water and Sanitation (CWSA) says bills of water consumed will from 1st January, 2021 be the responsibility of water service providers in the rural subsector.
This follows a statement released by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) that government’s free water package to Ghanaians as part of its interventions to curb the coronavirus pandemic ends December 31, 2020, as earlier announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
In a statement released by Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), he said: “With reference to the Presidential directive on provision of Free Water to Ghanaians from April to December 2020, as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) and the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, wish to inform all customers in rural communities and small towns that effective Thursday 31st December, 2020, the provision
GOVERNMENT’S FREE WATER PROGRAMME ENDS 31ST DECEMBER 2020
With reference to the Presidential directive on provision of Free Water to Ghanaians from April to December 2020, as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) and the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, wish to inform all customers in rural communities and small towns that effective Thursday 31st December, 2020, the provision of Free Water to Ghanaians comes to an end.
In this regard, customers of CWSA, and all other water services providers in the rural Sub-sector namely; Private Water Providers, Water & Sanitation Management Committees (WSMTs) and NGOs, as well as the general public should please note that, effective 1st January 2021, the monthly payment of bills for water consumed will become the responsibility of the customers and not Government of Ghana. All categories of water services providers who participated in the provision of Free Wat
Ghanaians reminded government’s free water ends on December 31 LISTEN
DEC 24, 2020
With reference to the Presidential directive on provision of Free Water to Ghanaians from April to December 2020, as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) and the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, wish to inform all customers in rural communities and small towns that effective Thursday 31st December 2020, the provision of Free Water to Ghanaians comes to an end.
In this regard, customers of CWSA, and all other water services providers in the rural Sub-sector namely; Private Water Providers, Water & Sanitation Management Committees (WSMTs) and NGOs, as well as the general public should please note that, effective 1st January 2021, the monthly payment of bills for water consumed will become the responsibility of the customers and not Government of Ghana.