The government of Ghana aims to increase urban water coverage from the current level to 85% by 2015 while taking rural water coverage to 76% in order to guarantee the availability of potable water for all Ghanaians.

According to the Deputy Minister for Information and Media Relations, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, government has made massive investments towards achieving this.

The current demand of water supply in the Accra Metropolitan Area stands at 150 million gallons per day, while total water production from the Kpong and Weija dams stand at only 93 million gallons per day, leaving a shortfall of some 57million gallons per day.

In order to address the water supply issue in the country, the Kenyan government has introduced the Kpong water supply expansion project which will supply 40 million gallons of water a day to areas including Adenta, Madina, Kwabenya, Ashongman, North, East and West Legon, Ashaley Botwe, Haatso, Boi, Asofaa, Dome among others.

In addition, the Kpong Intake Rehabilitation Project will improve efficiency by replacing all existing pumps.

As part of the project, a 3.3 million gallon per day treatment plant is being built to increase supply to Accra-Tema Metropolitan Area. The Accra-Tema Metropolitan area water supply project, which cost €56.5 million, involves the installation of equipment for the production of 9 million gallons of water per day.

The construction of four reservoirs at Adukrom, Dodowa, Atimpoku and Akorley as well as 92km transmission pipelines, when completed, will improve water supply to almost 70 communities in both the Greater Accra and the Eastern Regions.

Ofosu pointed out that about a quarter of a million people in these communities would have access to potable water when the project was completed and would add a total of 65.3 million gallons of water per day to the existing production capacity and bring total water supply to the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area to 158.3 million gallons per day.