Dr Clifford Braimah, the MD of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has justified his company’s proposal to the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) for an upward review of its tariff.
The GWCL last month submitted a proposal for a 343% tariff increment.
Talking to Kwaku Nhyira-Addo on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Tuesday (10 May), Braimah said: “Can you imagine the whole country there is no water for a week, can you imagine what will happen in Accra?
“Currently, our chemicals have gone up more than 50%, the shipments and those things have gone very high, pollution undertaken by the same customers is increasing, and so we are using more chemicals than we should use.”
“So, this is something that all of us should sit down and look at how we need to maintain these facilities or assets of the state and together we all benefit. If the cost goes down it comes back to the consumer, that is how it operates,” Braimah said.
The PURC has been meeting with the various stakeholders to discuss the proposal.
“PURC is undertaking stakeholder consultation,” Braimah said. “Today we are meeting the development partners, we tell them what the issues are, they make their contributions, and then PURC will go and sit back and look at the numbers and say we can take care of this, we can’t take care of this.”
“And we are all aware and the reports that come out indicates that the equipment that we are working with, the infrastructure are all obsolete,” he added.
Listen to Dr Clifford Braimah in the attached audio clip below:
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