Tag: BOREHOLE

The Koforidua Area of The Church of Pentecost has commissioned a mechanized borehole with two iron removal filters and an overhead polytank storage facility at total cost of Ghc38,844 for Akpo, a farming Community in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in Eastern region. Akpo and, its surrounding communities never had access to safe water since their existence. The estimated population of 2000 residents therefore depended on heavily polluted stream for drinking and other domestic uses which resulted in waterborne diseases among the populace. Few people including nurses and teachers who are able to afford, buy sachet water from Nkurakan township which is about 15km away. The water stress situation in Akpo community worsens every dry season as the only stream dries up. School children a...