Pipe Production Support Safe Water Supply in Ghana

Session 3A
3:50

Hayssam Fakhri, Interplast Ltd.
G. Talisse, Intracon
C. Salles, Borealis
T. Pezard, Borealis

Access to safe drinking water is key for human health, but also for the economical
development of a country. One of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is therefore to halve by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. The surveys regularly carried out by the World Health Organisation are showing the despite regular progress being made, the access to piped water is still low in Sub-Saharan African countries.

Bringing water from available sources to the household is however considered as critical for ensuring that people will have enough water for drinking, food preparation and personal hygiene.

Together with a strong political commitment to reach the Millennium Goals, many different factors are playing a role in the practical implementation.

In Ghana, one decisive step contributing to make the installation of new pipe networks easier was certainly the decision taken the company Interplast to start-up of a PE pipe production almost 10 years ago.

This suddenly created an easy access to a high quality, and economical pipe source and to implement faster the political decisions, while at the same time contributing to the local economy.

This paper will focus on several large drinking water projects that could be realised in Ghana, but also in the surrounding countries, with the strong involvement of this local factory producing according to the highest international quality standards and using state-of-the art technology.