Facts you should know
Here are some facts you should know about our performance at AVRL since the beginning of the management contract with Ghana Water Company Ltd. (GWCL) in 2006.

• The number of training days has gone up from an average of less than five hours (0.2) per year per employee in 2006 to almost three and half days in 2007 and nearly two days in 2008.
• Labour productivity is also up from GHc20 million in 2006 (nearly the same as in 2005) to GHc24 million in 2007 and GhC33 million cedis in 2008. That is a 65 per cent improvement.
• Water revenue has risen from almost GHc54 million in 2005 to GhC56 million in 2006 to GHc69 million in 2007 and GhC100.7 last year. (Although tariffs went up by 60 per cent in November 2007, electricity tariffs also went up 90 per cent and that is a cost to us.)
• Our collection ratio has appreciated from 76per cent in 2005 to 95 per cent in 2006, 89 percent in 2007 and 93 per cent in 2008.
• We have reduced the cost of chemicals used to produce a cubic meters of treated water by half (50 per cent) since 2006.
• We have also reduced the amount of electricity used to produce a cubic metre of water from 0.98 kwh in 2006 to 0.91 kwh in 2008.
• In 2006, we sold and billed 100 million cubic meters of water. In 2007, this went up to nearly 104 million cubic meters and 107 million cubic meters in 2008.
• In 2005, the net operating surplus stood at GHc5.6 million. In 2006 it rose to GhC9.0 million. In 2007, it went up to GhC13.4 million, and GHc14.3 million in 2008.