Improvement and Expansion of Water Facilities in Freetown and Rural Areas

IMPROVEMENT AND
EXPANSION OF WATER
FACILITIES TO UNSERVED
AND UNDERSERVED
COMMUNITIES IN FREETOWN
AND FREETOWN RURAL
AREAS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Water supply is extremely important as people are dependent upon water for their day to
day needs such as drinking, cooking, washing, and other domestic needs. Water supply system
should be maintained and developed by the government in a manner which are effectively able to
meet requirements for public, industrial as well as commercial activities (Yawson, Adu and
Armah, 2020). In all of the explained cases, the water supply must fulfil the requirements of
quality along with quantity. This report will discuss the topic that are related to the expansion
and improvements of water facilities into underserved and unserved communities in Freetown
and Freetown rural areas.
MAIN BODY
The scarcity of water resources and the growing discrepancy between supply and demand
of water in Freetown and Freetown rural areas are facing major challenges. Water scarcity is
worsened by rapidly growing demand due to fast growth in population, unstable consumption,
weak management of water supply by regulations along with climatic changes. The area of
Grafton and Waterloo is not a town and thus facing serious problems related to the water supply.
In order to overcome form water scarcity, desalination has been conducted as it is the best way to
separate salt from the sea water and get it processed in order to get the water which are drinkable
in nature. In order to avoid scarcity of water, there are certain solutions that has been considered
to be taken by the government in order to resolve the disastrous issue such as save water
whenever possible (White, 2019). It includes limitation of utilising the water. Apart from this the
recycle water is also an option through which the problem of Freetown and Freetown rural areas
can be resolved. In waterless regions freshwater resources may be at times be limited up to an
extend that the demand of the water has been fulfilled by only going beyond sustainable use.
Apart from this, climatic conditions also determines the region which receives huge amount of
downfall and thus influence water source availability. In the areas of Peninsula where extension
of water network will be executed just in order to fulfil the demand and supply of water. Most of
the rural areas are highly dependent upon the ground water or surface water as sources of their
drinking water are highly limited in nature. Traditionally, the people living in rural areas have
obtained their water from unprotected ponds or wells, tanks and sometimes the streams and
rivers.