Easy Water for Everyone dedicated to providing 22 island communities with safe drinking water – Harrison Matti
The Country Director for Easy Water for Everyone (EWfE), Harrison Matti has communicated his organisation’s dedication to ensuring all 22 island communities in the Ada area gain access to safe potable drinking water.
This is in line with his organisation’s drive to serve 60 more communities in Ghana with potable drinking water by 2024.
He made this announcement at this year’s celebration of World Water Day, 2022 at a ceremony held at the Pediatorkorpe DA Basic School where community schools engaged in a quiz competition on water, sanitation and environmental issues.
Speaking at the event, Harisson Matti noted that it was important that students understood the need to drink safe water and also become ambassadors of drinking safe water at home and in the community at large.
And to support the initiative, he explained that the NGO was partnering with other international organisations to develop, improve and expand mechanisms that will provide clean and pure water for the island communities.
“We have been doing this for years and it is something we will continue to do despite the Covid-19 pandemic and its limitations. Everybody deserves water; good, clean water and we find pleasure in providing it,” he added.
Currently, the NGO primarily serves communities in West Africa, providing pure water to 16,000 people across 35 villages. They are currently capable of producing in excess of 50,000 litres of pure water daily without the use of electricity.
They serve rural communities that have been left out as a result of national thresholds including, islands where rigs cannot access, hard-to-reach communities, communities where simple pipe schemes cannot reach, communities with access to surface or underground water, and communities without power.
This is in aiding African countries achieve the UN SDG 6 which talks about ensuring easy access to water and proper sanitation.
Source: Ghana News
