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Groundwater is the primary source of water for domestic, agricultural and industrial uses in many countries. Demand for potable water in northern Ghana, especially during drought has raise in a short time. The Groundwater potential within the area of study was studied using critical hydrogeological factors such as; overburden thickness, groundwater geophysics, borehole successes, pumping rate and groundwater depth. Over reliance on rain-fed agriculture can threaten food security now and centuries to come due to the irregularities of rainfall patterns. This research targeted areas of high groundwater success rate so as to minimise the gap in the computation that may be affected as a result of the dry boreholes. Sites of high Static Water Level (SWL = 44.50-22.86 m) are likely to have shallow groundwater depth while sites of (SWL = 18.91-5.74 m) may have deeper depth. The Groundwater Storage and the Usable Storage were estimated to be approximately 514.6 x 10� BCM and 214.8 � 10� BCM respectively for the aquifer basement complex of the 37 boreholes. The pumping rate showed that sufficient amount of groundwater was discharged from the boreholes; hence the exploration of groundwater as an alternative water supply for irrigation and agricultural production within the Upper East Region is completely feasible.