Ho, Nov. 8, GNA- An acute water shortage has hit the Ho Municipality for the past four days and people including school children are seen with containers traveling long distances in search of water. Consequently, the price of sachet water has shot up from 4 Ghana pesewas to 5 Ghana pesewas and the commodity is even hard to come by. Mr. Eric Bansah, Ho Municipal Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) told the GNA that the shortage was due to maintenance works being undertaking by the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Electricity Company of Ghana at their substations at Kpeve. He said the maintenance work had caused power outage at the Kpeve head-works of GWCL, which necessitated the shutting down of taps for the period.

Mr. Bansah however expressed the hope that the situation would be normalized before the weekend.