Ashanti News 11
May 2010
David Williamson, a founder trustee of Ashanti Development and professional water
engineer with long experience as a WaterAid volunteer, describes progress in providing
Ashanti villages with water and sanitation.
The underground...
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Ashanti News 11
May 2010
David Williamson, a founder trustee of Ashanti Development and professional water
engineer with long experience as a WaterAid volunteer, describes progress in providing
Ashanti villages with water and sanitation.
The underground strata around Gyetiase is mainly metamorphosed sedimentary and
igneous rock.
It doesn’t hold water, so most villages rely on streams.
If boreholes in
this part of Ghana are to give a reliable yield they must intercept cracks in the solid rock
mass and, even with the help of experienced hydrogeologists, only about one in three
boreholes is successful.
Simon Sholl (who also runs our National Health Insurance Scheme) has just come back
from Ghana, where he helped site new boreholes including one at Mprim village, where
we had almost given up hope.
According to Simon, the borehole is providing ‘shiploads’
of water.
He also got the water pumps working again in the villages we call PSK –
Patase, Sesease and Master’s home village, Kokobe
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