In order, to achieve this objective, CWSA initiated a policy reform in 2017, to expand its mandate to include the management of the piped water systems in rural areas, and thus, in effect to become a rural utility. Four years into the reform agenda, CWSA recognizes that it needs to evolve to become the provider of safe water to residents served by the about 1200 pipe water systems in Ghana. Hence, the R-WUP would like to support CWSA to establish an effective rural and small-town water utility approach in the Western region, strengthening its capacity comparable to the national level to be replicated across the country.

Since the implementation of the reform in 2017, there is a need to evaluate the extent to which, the set objectives were achieved, and the challenges encountered. The project seeks to collect data to develop indicators to align with SDG 6 to serve as a baseline to determine the extent of progress made to the reform. The team started with Mpohor area council communities with most of the communities or places the assembly members, opinion leaders and the unit committee members moving with us to direct us to the exact locations where a particular water facility is found which is commercial. A week long was used in collecting field data in Mpohor Area Council. The team again went to the second area council thus Ayiem Area Council, the team used two days to complete its field data collection. It was very unfortunate when the two gentlemen on a motor bike got an accident on their way to Bowobrayie, a small community closer to Tarkwa Nsuaem.