Gulkpegu Tua Residents share Dam water with animals
Residents of Gulkpegu Tua in the Northern Region have been constrained to share dam water with animals due to the deficiency of potable water in the community.
Joseph Marfo 
Residents of Gulkpegu Tua in the Northern Region have been constrained to share dam water with animals due to the deficiency of potable water in the community.
A dam sited in the Gulkpegu Tua community serves another village and animals in the area which could be contaminated and can cause an outbreak of water-borne diseases.
When Soiree News visited the Gulkpegu Tua community, it was observed that residents fetch the dam water whiles animals walk into the dam to drink from it at the same time.
Some residents said, that the water situation is perturbing because the mechanized boreholes in the community are nonfunctional.
In 2010, the United Nations general assembly declared that the human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use, however, the reality in Gulkpegu Tua is a contravention of the above as the people and animals compete for water the contaminated dam for water.
“We drink the dam water, in its raw state not because we enjoy it but we do not have a choice,” the residents stated.
They however appealed to the government, NGOs, philanthropists to come to the aid.
Steven Amoah, Northern Region
