The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) discovered a significant illegal water connection at IceCool Purified Water Limited’s Shai Hills facility, which produces Icecool sachet and bottled water.
The GWCL uncovered the infraction during a visit to the facility as part of its national revenue enhancement campaign.
A team from the Tema GWCL Regional Office, including with security staff, detected a similar unlawful connection at Kings and Queens Medical Teaching Hospital in Kpong.
Mr Sampson Ampah, GWCL Tema Region’s Communications Manager, told the media that the sachet and bottle water company has been illegally using water for production for a long time.
Mr. Ampah went on to say that the business had made a complicated connection, utilizing the GWCL cleaned water for their production without having to pay for it by connecting it into eight 2,000 cubic meter tanks.
“Our checks from the revenue enhancement team clearly show that they did not only bypass the metre to have the water in the tank to use illegally, but also removed the metre and used the water directly, an action clearly amounting to illegal connection.”
He said that for the past five years, the staff at the Kings and Queens Medical Teaching Hospital has been using the GWCL’s main 21-inch pipe directly and connecting it to their subterranean tank.
He said that the connection was so intricate that it would require multiple visits to identify it, and that the team had been waiting in ambush for some time before determining that the two establishments were engaged in unlawful activity.
The manager of communications stated that the firm will measure the amount of water used to surcharge them, that the management of the two locations has been invited, and that the police would be notified of any criminal activity.
“We are appealing to the public to help us fight against such illegal connections; it is going against our revenue so much. You can imagine the volume of water they are using here without paying for it, and this is water that we have treated, and we need to account for every drop of it,” he said.
Mr. Ampah stated that the public must assist in apprehending lawbreakers since there is a reward for anyone who reports such illicit connections when they are shown to be real.
Source: newsthemegh.com