Ghana’s Capital Dries Up as Water System Lags Oil-Led Boom
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Charity Atter’s maid, Eva, lowers a bucket tied with a yellow rope deep into a well and waits about two minutes for the water to collect inside. Atter, a 37-year-old widow who lives in one of the fast-growing suburbs of Ghana’s capital, has been relying on well water for three years.
“The water situation we’re facing here is a very difficult problem,” she said as she tended customers at a vegetable store in front of her house in Accra. “It’s just that there is no alternative.”