The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has started a nationwide revenue mobilisation exercise to collect all arrears owed by customers. The company is out to collect about GH₵800 million in debts as of January this year, up from GH₵684 million debts that stood on the company’s books as of January 2022. This was when in […]
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New water supply system for industries in offing
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) intends to build a new water supply system as a long-term measure to meet the water needs of commercial users in the industrial enclave of Tema, Kpone and its environs. The project forms part of efforts by GWCL to improve system performance to meet the ever-growing customer needs. The Managing […]
GH¢10 million rehabilitated Salaga water system project completed; President Akufo-Addo commends GWCL
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday, 3rd February, 2020, on his tour of the Savannah Region, commended the Ghana Water Company Ltd for completing the rehabilitation of the Salaga water system project. It will be recalled that in 2017, during a tour of Salaga, which was then part of the […]
Tono Irrigation and Water projects will be completed on time-GWCL assures President Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has been assured of the completion of the Tono Water Project by August 2021 and the rehabilitation and modernization of the Tono Irrigation Scheme by July 2020. This was disclosed when President Akufo-Addo paid a visit to the site of the project on Wednesday, 14th August […]
Water crisis looms as Weija suffers low pressure due to erratic power supply – GWCL MD
Residents of Accra West Region who get their water supply from the Weija Water Treatment Plant face an imminent water crisis, which the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is blaming on erratic power supply. For over three weeks now, many residents of Accra West, including places like Dansoman, Lapaz, and Kaneshie, have been experiencing very […]
GWCL to spill excess water from Weija Dam
Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is set to begin spilling excess water from the Weija Dam as part of routine measures to safeguard it. With the onset of the rains, the water level is rising and getting close to the safe operating level of 47ft. Communities that are likely to be affected include Tetegu, Oblogo, […]
GWCL not in a hopeless situation, but UG, UEW plus other institutions must pay their water bills-Board Chair
The Board chairman of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Alexander Afenyo Markin says the company’s story is not one of distress and hopelessness, but a story of a viable company which fortunes is beginning to turnaround for the good. According to him, unprecedented in the history of the company, it recruited 50 young engineers […]
Just in: journalist caught in 5m cedis blackmail bribery scandal, GJA reports him to CID
The Ghana Journalists Association has referred a case of extortion and blackmail by a Journalist to the Police CID for further investigations. The Journalist of Accra FM, Nana Okyere Gyampa, is reported to have persistently demanded five million cedis from the Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as a condition for dropping […]