At least 250,000 Ghanaians will have access to good drinking water this year in addition to the 350,000 people who are already enjoying healthy drinking water.

Speaking at the world Water Day amidst with a Health Walk organized by Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited in collaboration with the Water of Life (NGO), the Corporate Relations of the Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited, Mr. Edwin Baffour, said through the support of Water of Life, the company had provided 350,000 Ghanaian citizens with good drinking water in the past 3 years.

He said the environment we live now cannot be healthy without water.

He stated that water scarcity has already affected every continent which about 1.2billion people almost one-fifth of the world population lives in areas of physical water scarcity and 500 million people are approaching similar situation.

He further stated that about 1.6 billion people, almost one-quarter of the World population face economic water shortage (lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers).

About 700 million people in 43 countries suffer today from water scarcity; meanwhile the sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of water-stressed countries in the world.

This has occurred as a result of irrational use of water and lack of necessary infrastructure to tap water from the rivers.

Currently, there is enough fresh water on the planet for six (6) billion people but it is distributed unevenly and much of it is wasted, polluted and unsustainably managed.

With the existing climate change scenario, almost half of the world’s population will be living in areas of high water stress by the year 2030.

A great number between 75 to 250 million people in Africa will face this problem in the year 2030 while the water scarcity in some arid and semi-arid places will displace a population of between 24 and 700 million people.

Story: Evans Okai Darko & Joyce Quaye (Reporters, Health Digest News)