Ghana: Water shortage in Cape Coast, Elmina, others:  We can’t produce, supply water …GWL laments as galamsey activities pollute River Pra

Illegal mining activities (galamsey) along the Pra River in the Central Region is making it almost impossible for the Ghana Water Limited (GWL) to extract raw water from its Sekyere Hemang Treatment Plant to supply adequate potable water to residents of Cape Coast, Elmina and surrounding communities.

Pollution of the river, especially its catch­ment for abstraction, has reduced water em­bankment to the barest minimum as a result of which the company has resorted to erratic…