to conserve spilled water from Bagre Dam

Bolgatanga, Sept 9, GNA - The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Mr Opam Brown Akolbire, has appealed to the Food and Agriculture and Energy ministries to consider building g a dam that would serve as a reservoir in the Upper East Region to harvest spilled water from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga after visiting some of the communities to see whether they had been affected by the flood, he expressed worry about the annual spillage of the Bagre dam which sometimes claimed human life and destroy farms.

Mr Akolbire said rain water that was allowed to go waste during heavy rains could be conserved in the reservoir to alleviate the difficulties farmers go through getting water for dry season farming.

He said in the 1960s and in 1987 feasibility studies were conducted around Pwalugu in the Talensi-Nabdam District to see if a dam could be constructed to serve as a reservoir to harvest water for irrigation and electric powe.

HeMr Akolbire appealed to communities living along the low land area to relocate to avoid the ravages caused by the perennial floods.