90% of sachet water just raw tap water – GWCL
The Head of Communication at the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Stanley Martey, has alleged that more than 90 percent of sachet water on the market is just raw tap water repackaged by various sachet water producers. This is contrary to suggestions that the sachet water is properly treated and therefore better than the raw resource directly supplied by the GWCL. He made the comment while responding to a Demographic and Health Survey report by the Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Statistical Service that revealed that 29% of Ghanaians rely on sachet water. “More than 90 percent of sachet water producers use water from the Ghana Water Company as their raw material for the production of sachet water..It is all from Ghana Water Company and not any industry trying to treat its water. “They rather devalue the water because if you look at the conditions under which some of these sachet water producers produce their water, it is rather pathetic. The conditio...