WHY GHANA’s TEMA CENTRAL SEWERAGE SYSTEM NEEDS REHABILITATION

The need to rehabilitate Ghana’s Tema Central sewerage system has become a worry to the residents. It was built in the late 1950s to cater for a population of between 20,000 to 40,000 but the sewer network has been overstretched to carry the liquid waste of the current population of over 360,000.

So far, the sewerage system has caused some residential areas to be inundated with the spillage liquid waste due to the blockage in the disintegrated and aged asbestos pipes.

While other portions of the network, are choked with foreign materials such as underwears, used condoms, baby diapers, sanitary pads and pieces of nets used as sponges which have been accidentally or otherwise flushed into the system.

Currently the situation is posing a health threat to the public as some residents have been complaining of headaches, fatigue, sinus infections, bronchitis, and pneumonia, loss of appetite, poor memory and dizziness allegedly due to long exposure to sewer gas.

Meanwhile, Besides pondering over how to resolve the huge challenge, the city authorities are also confronted with raising enough funds to tackle the problem which has persisted for the past 18 years.

However, there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel after the Tema Metropolitan Assembly struck a €76 million deal with Sewerage System Ghana Limited to undertake rehabilitation and expansion of the Tema Central sewerage system.

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