Ghana Water Company To Begin Reading Meters With Drones (VIDEO)

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) says it will start using drones to read meters in various households across the country.

According to the GWCL, the new move will help tackle challenges some of its staff go through when deployed to do their jobs.

Speaking at an event in Accra, the Managing Director of Ghana Water Company, Ing. Dr. Clifford Abdallah Braimah said "I am happy to also announce that we have just piloted the drone-metric system. Sometimes, when there is flood, you are unable to go and read. When there are other disruptions, you are unable to go to read, and we will use the drone to take the metres and the record is fantastic. Within 15 minutes, we are able to read 500 metres"

"So what it means is that if they are widely deployed, we will be more efficient and then the customers will have their bills as quickly as possible so that so that they can plan to pay."

The MD also said "The new system will significantly reduce the time between customer meter reading and customer billing, eliminate arm-chair meter reading, effectively reduce human errors inherent in the current billing system, link customer billing to customer location, allow for bill payment anywhere in the world, enable online service connection application and reduce new service connection time" Ing Dr. Braimah ceased on the opportunity and appealed to the State's National Security to treat as urgent the illegal connection of water as a critical national security threat. "When someone does an illegal connection; the person is threatening the lives of Ghanaians" Ing. Abdallah Braimah further charged the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to ensure that all adhesives used to connect the pipes in households are certified. He begged the public to do well and point out all manner of persons involved in illegal water connections. Watch the video below:

Story by: Joshua Kwabena Smith