A SEVERE water shortage has hit the Yendi Municipality following the breakdown of the electricity transformer at the water pumping station.
For almost three weeks now, business and social activities have virtually slowed down, while workers and schoolchildren have been compelled to report late to work and classes.
A visit to the area was greeted with people carrying various types and sizes of water containers on their heads, on bicycles and in vehicles, combing the length and breadth of the municipality and beyond in search of water.
The few wells in the area were also drying up as a result of the high demand for water.
The people and institutions such as the Yendi Hospital are now relying on some few water tankers that are supplying water from Tamale, a distance of about 97 kilometres.
During the harmattan season last year, when the main water source, River Dakar, dried up, a similar water crisis hit the area .
According to the Yendi Municipal Manager of the Ghana Water Company, Mr Peter Wuni, a well from which the company was temporarily supplying water had also dried up.
He said the transformer might have been damaged from the frequent power fluctuation that had been occurring at the pumping station of late.
Mr Wuni said his outfit was currently collaborating with the management of the Volta River Authority to rectify the situation.
The Yendi Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Mahama Adama Walvis Hudu, appealed to the people to remain calm as the assembly was working hard with the other stakeholders to address the problem.
He, however, entreated the Ghana Water Company to instal a stand-by generator to forestall future occurrences.
He noted that since the population of the area was increasing, it was important that service providers expanded their systems to meet such needs.
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