President Akufo-Addo has inaugurated an ultra-modern Simplified Sewerage Facility and Treatment Plant at Ashaiman and the rehabilitated and expanded Bankuman Simplified Sewerage Plant at a cost of six point six million dollars.
The two new simplified sewerage networks, comprising fifty-one kilometres of sewer lines and a new wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of about one thousand, eight hundred metre-cubed per day in Ashaiman, will serve more than four thousand, eight hundred and five households in the Community.
The plant in Bankuman, with a capacity of one thousand, six hundred metre-cubed per day, is to serve about three thousand, one hundred households. Speaking at the ceremony at Ashaiman, President Akufo-Addo said the two projects reinforce Government’s commitment to offer solutions to the infrastructural gap identified as one of the major challenges plaguing the sanitation and water resources sectors.
The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Freda Prempeh, said the new sewage facilities will help reduce the risk of infectious diseases.
