The Dispatch says the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), which has been lamenting on its inability to buy ordinary chemicals to produce good drinking water, is being threatened with legal action, unless it 'coughs' up ?12,000 (124.8 million) for an advert placed on its behalf by Kensington Publications Limited in a foreign newspaper.

A letter, dated April 9, (ref. KP104/GIL 4001) from Inter- Credit International Limited to the GWCL stated that, "the above balance (?12,000) is overdue and immediate settlement is required. We have today been instructed by our client to effect recovery on their behalf and hereby give formal notice of our intent to commence legal proceedings against your company."

The threat accompanied that, "should you wish to avoid this course of action, your payment must be received at their offices within ten days of the date of this letter".

However, in a letter signed by Mr Charles Anson-Lawson, Chief Manager, Public Relations, the GWCL says it will not be fair for it to pay the bill because the company's Public Relations Department was not consulted before the publication of the advert.