The Community Water and Sanitation Agency has held a meeting at Drobo to sensitize heads of departments in the Jaman South District on the new policy on small towns water project for 2010.
The meeting was to enable the district, a beneficiary of the project, to submit its report to the project�s headquarters in Accra.
The small town water project is a three�year extension water project targeting local NGOs to sensitize the communities on water hygiene and perfect utilization of water.
The meeting noted that under the old system the assembly and the community paid five per cent each of the total cost for the execution of the project and the government paid the remaining 90 per cent.
This time around the major change is that whereas 500 people benefited under the old system, the number of the populace proportional to the acquisition of a pipe borne water borehole or hand-dug well has been reduced to 300 persons per borehole.
The meeting decided that with the new scheme, water and sanitation boards should be set up in communities and would be monitored and audited by auditors of the district assembly.
Mr. Gabriel Kofi Kyeremeh, the Presiding Member, expressed appreciation for the radical changes made in the scheme.
During an open forum, it came out that the Water and Sanitation agencies failed to make accounts readily accessible to the communities and were asked to do so.
Mr. Julius Atta Bediako, the District Chief Executive, expressed concern about the use of contaminated water by the people.
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