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ACCRA Selbst Gestalten Fußball Trikot , March 22 (Xinhua) -- Low level of financing and the pollution of water bodies have been identified as the two major challenges facing sustainable water service delivery in both urban and rural Ghana.


The Ghana Water Company Ltd (GWCL) says it needs 2 billion U. S. dollars to build up enough treatment plants and rehabilitate old dilapidated plants to ensure increased water production in order to attain 100 percent coverage nationwide.


The company also has to deal with water pollution by illegal miners, sand winners, unorthodox farming methods and fecal pollution that keep cost of production at a high level.


In an exclusive interview with Xinhua on Friday, Michael Agyeman, chief manager in charge of public relations of the GWCL Marcel Halstenberg Deutschland Trikot , said while the demand for the whole country was 249 million gallons of water per day (249 mgpd), what the company is able to produce stands at 150 mgpd.


Using 2009 as the base year, the Annual Progress Report (APR) of 2012 by the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing says access to safe water in the rural areas is 63.41 percent and 62.9 percent in urban.


This worked up to 86 percent of potable water coverage for the whole country under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations (UN).


Despite this achievement, the water situation across the country has not been so smooth-sailing for communities Leroy Sane Deutschland Trikot , as there are still huge gaps in water delivery in rural, urban and peri- urban areas.


"We need more funding from the government of Ghana in order to be able to increase production capacity, since the tariffs we charge only take care of our running and operational costs," Agyeman maintained.


Out of 100 million dollars needed annually for investment into infrastructure, the company only receives 30 million dollars Sebastian Rudy Deutschland Trikot , the official disclosed.


The difficult financial situation of the company was worsened by the pollution of many of