Ghana is likely to miss the 76 per cent target set towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of providing safe water to rural communities by 2016.
Currently, the country has achieved 63 per cent coverage.
This is attributed to funding constraints and the lack of more donor support where some projects have to be scaled down.
Mr. Clement Bugase, Chief Executive of Community Water and Sanitation Agency, (CWA), revealed this when he joined some board members of the agency to inspect a number of completed and ongoing water projects in the Volta Region.
Some of the system facilities visited were Kpalime Tongor in the South Dayi District, Emly Israel in the Afadjato South, Damanko/Kpasa, in the Nkwanta North and Nkwanta South District water system.
Mr. Bugase said hitherto, safe water was a major challenge in some areas especially, Damanko/Kpasa and Nkwanta areas compelling people to depend on shallow hand-dug wells, thereby contracting water-borne diseases such as the guinea worm disease.
He said that, it was good news that 13 communities in the Nkwanta North District now have good drinking water at their doorsteps.
Mr. Bugase said the agency had provided technical support to the assemblies and community boards to manage the system for the people.
He said the government in collaboration with CWSA was doing everything possible to address the water deficit in rural communities and was confident that water would reach all deprived communities soon.
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