It has emerged that Ghana has been spending huge amount of money to import portable water into the country in recent times.
The acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe, who echoed this in an interview on Accra-based Okay FM, said this was alarming.
“Do you know that in 2023, imported water alone into Ghana cost almost 11 million dollars?,” he asked the host of the interview, adding that the country have invested this amount into sectors of the economy for other purposes.
He further called on chiefs and other opinion leaders to join the fight against the galamsey menace.
The figure espoused by the Lawyer had earlier been revealed by Economist and Finance Lecturer, Professor Godfred Bokpin, who had warned the country could spend more to import water if we fail to deal with activities that are polluting our water bodies including illegal mining.
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“So the pattern is clear, and where people are heading. Those who can afford will begin to gravitate towards it. We have not visited our water bodies to see for ourselves. If you go and see for yourself, you will be very careful if you buy food from certain regions of this country.”
Prof Bokpin had mentioned Togo, Nigeria, Spain, and the UK as the leading countries that Ghana imported the water from.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh/Kwaku Nti
