The Ghana Statistical Service has disclosed that sachet water is the main source of drinking water in the country, following the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) exercise conducted.
The data contained in the 2021 Ghana Population and Housing Census – General Report Volume 3M; Water and Sanitation indicates that 37.4% of households use sachet water as their main source of drinking water followed by pipe-borne water which was used by 31.7% of households and borehole/tube which was used by 17.7% of households.
The census data also found that in urban areas the two main sources of drinking water was sachet water which was used by 51.5% of households and pipe-borne water which was used by 33.6% of households while in rural areas, borehole/tube well was used by 33.6% of households and pipe-borne water was used by 28.8% of households.
However, the report also found that the use of sachet water as the main source of drinking water was largely an urban phenomenon (51.5%). It is the most used source of drinking water in Greater Accra (70.7%) and the least in North East (1.8%), Upper East (2.2%) and Upper West (2.6%) regions.
Below is the data from the Ghana Statistical Service;
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