Kwanyaku (C/R), Sept. 1, GNA - Work on the Kwanyaku Water Treatment Rehabilitation and Expansion Project is to be completed ahead of the scheduled time in June next year.

Eighty-five per cent of work has so far been completed after 13 months of construction, and expectations are that it would be finished ahead of time.

The 24.2 million Euro project is being funded through a grant from the Netherlands Government and a loan facility from Dutch Bank to the Government of Ghana.

These were made known on Friday when Ms Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, paid a visit to the Project site.

She expressed happiness at the rate at which work was advancing and urged the workers not to relent but to put in their maximum best to complete it ahead of time.

Mrs Dapaah said in providing water the government intended that all surrounding villages and towns were supplied with potable water. Mr Emmanuel Appiah, Acting Regional Chief Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited, said when completed it would provide potable water for about 500,000 people. Beneficiary areas include, Bawjuase; Akyem Nyanoa; Odoben; Ajumako; Essekyir; Ewutu-Breku; Senya-Breku and Dawurampong all in the Central Region.

Mr Appiah said the new plant would provide an additional 4.5 million gallons of water a day compared to the 3.5 million gallons, which the plant produces at present. Mr Appiah said about 700,000 people would benefit from the Project by 2015.

Mr Alfons Staessens, the Plant Manager of Deny Engineering Construction of Holland, said the new plant would be operational by December 1 if electricity were provided adding that the old plant would also be modified.

Mr Brimpong Yeboah, Regional Engineer of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), said by the end of September the electrification project of the District would have been addressed.