Water crisis forces Dekpor residents to rely on contaminated dam [Video]

Residents of Dekpor Horme in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region have appealed to authorities for potable drinking water as they continue to struggle with water crisis.

A mechanised borehole constructed to serve the community with a population of over 12,000 had broken down for over a decade.

Residents have since been compelled to depend on polluted water fetched from a dam constructed in 1982.

Information gathered from Adom News correspondent, Odehyeba Owusu Job, notes that residents, particularly those who cannot afford to buy sachet water, use the contaminated dam as their only source of drinking water, exposing them to serious health risks.

Children as young as 10 and mothers were seen staggering deep into the less disturbed portion of the dam to fetch water at the peril of their lives.

A resident explained “This is our only source of water, we use it for washing, cooking, and …