Water and Sanitation

Water and sanitation are key components that determines the health of a people. Even though the district has a lot in these sectors there are much more to be done. A lot more demands come from the communities in terms of water and sanitation facilities. The district has one hundred and ninety-two (192) functional boreholes, two (2) limited mechanized boreholes and one (1) Small Town Water System. The overall water coverage of the district is eighty (80) percent. Very few communities in the district have access to water from Ghana Water Company. Most of the communities rely on public and private boreholes for their water needs.

There are twenty-two (22) communal dumping sites in the district but there is no final disposal site. There are two thousand three hundred and fifty-three (2,353) household toilets, one hundred and thirteen (113) institutional toilets and forty-four (44) public toilets. The District Assembly concentrate on provision of institutional toilet facilities to the public schools and leave the provision of communal public toilet facilities to public- privatepartnership arrangement. The Environmental Health Unit and the building inspectorate units should make sure that at least all new building projects either residential or commercial should have toilet facilities before they are occupied. This will help reduce reliance on public toilet facilities.

The management of solid waste in the district is faced with a lot of challenges. Almost every community in the district has an issue with the operations of the Zoom Lion Company. Both household bins and communal skip containers gets full and are not collected for several weeks. The assembly should either acquire its own final disposal site or liaise with neighbouring districts to acquire a common final disposal site to aid in the management of solid waste in the district.