Management of Ghana Water Company Limited, GWCL has lamented that their greatest hurdle with regards to the national revenue mobilization exercise is the attitude of domestic customers.

Speaking on Sompa FM’s Adea Akye Abia, Managing Director of Ghana Water Company Limited, Mr. Clifford Braimah, mentioned that since they commenced the revenue mobilization exercise, people are paying their arrears especially the big industries. However, domestic consumers are failing to do the needful, making it difficult for Ghana water to operate.

“Ghanaians are owing a little over GHc800 million. Our major defaulters are domestic customers. Yet that is where our challenge is. Whilst the industries are paying 30ghc per cubic meter, domestic customers are paying 7.3ghc per cubic meter.”

Mr. Braimah divulged that since the domestic customers are refusing to pay, Ghana water might concentrate more on providing water for the businesses and industries in order to generate revenue.

“I will tend to deny the domestic customers and push the water to the industries. I need to operate. I need to buy chemicals. More than 80percent of the ghc800million is with the domestic people yet they complain of water shortage the most.” He said.

 The MD stressed that Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has begun this national revenue mobilization exercise to recover all arrears owed by consumers. Hence, they require the massive cooperation from all and sundry to make the operation successful.

He added that there would be a disconnection team and a task force deployed in all the regions and district offices, who will “disconnect all categories of customers whose bills are in arrears” owed by consumers.