Hubei team helps bring clean water to millions in Ghana

A construction team from Wuhan, Hubei province, has helped ease difficulties in obtaining drinking water for nearly 8 million Africans over the past 20 years.

The team, which has provided supplies of pure underground water, began to dig the first well in February 1998, and now 4,700 wells have been built in the northern provinces of Ghana, West Africa - about the same number as there are in Hubei.

Despite a wealth of gold and ivory resources, Ghana's infrastructure had declined and people had relatively low living standards, earning the equivalent of about 10 yuan ($1.40) a day.