ONE unique feature about Dzodze in the Ketu North District in the Volta Region is the ingenuity of its people to store water for domestic and industrial puposes due to the perennial water shortage.
In almost every household, a tank has been constructed to store harvested rain water for use during hard times.
According to an opinion leader, Mr Prince Ahiadzro, there was only one stream called Kplikpa, from which the people drew water and which usually dried up during the dry season.
He said the situation compelled them to resort to harvesting rain water and that until the Volta Region Water and Sanitation Project provided the community with potable water from mechanised boreholes, water supply was woefully inadequate.
Ahiadzro said the people always needed more water to operate local industries like palm oil production and “akpeteshie” distillation.
Sufficient water was also needed to run hospitals, schools, hotels, offices and other public places.
Mr Ahiadzro said wood ash was used to treat the harvested rain water in order to get rid of impurities.
The Dzodze Traditional Area comprises communities such as Ablorme, Adagbledu, Fiagbedu, Afetefe, Afeyime, Dafornyanu and Afiadenyigba.
Dzodze is the capital of the newly created Ketu-North District.
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