Contaminated water kills 10,000 annually

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Only10 per cent of urban and rural dwellers in Ghana treat their water before drinking, a household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) assessment conducted by UNICEF has established.

Experts recommend actions for fertiliser, soil fertility challenges

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

The experts at the workshop with Shashidhara Kolavalli doing a presentation

 A team of agricultural scientists and stakeholders who met in Accra last Monday, has offered recommendations to aid the government and the country to overcome its fertiliser subsidies and soil fertility challenges.

Govt invests GH¢17 million in borehole project

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Twenty thousand of these would be provided

The government of Ghana is currently funding  20,000 borehole water supply projects with GH¢17 million from the Consolidated Fund over a five-year period, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has said.

Project to transform waste management systems takes off

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

The Legon, Accra Waste Treatment Plant

A project to transform waste treatment systems in the country into self-supporting production facilities has taken off.

Amasaman school children share KVIP with community

By Edmund Smith-Asante

Community members of Amasaman are competing with about 1,600 schoolchildren of the Amasaman cluster of schools in the use of a nine-hole KVIP, which is supposed to be the place of convenience for the schools.

The schools are the Amasaman MA 1 & 2 Primary schools and the Amasaman JHS 1 & 2.
The only difference is that the schoolchildren use it for free, while members of the Amasaman municipality have to pay a fee of 30Gp, which is double the previous price of 15Gp.

Government sets Nov 1 as National Sanitation Day

By Edmund Smith-Asante & Adwoa Amofa Osei

Nii Lantey Vanderpuye addressing the durbar

The government has set the first day in November this year as a National Sanitation Day. This would be the start of a national clean-up exercise to be observed every first week of the month across the country.

The formal launching of the day, which is intended to bring back communal work days to improve on environmental sanitation, would be held on Friday in Accra.

Ghana needs socio-cultural transformation

By Edmund Smith-Asante

The President of the Full Gospel Church International (FGCI), the Rt Rev. Samuel N. Mensah, has urged pastors to educate their congregations on the need to observe good sanitary practices.

He called for a socio-cultural transformation of the country led by the government, in partnership with religious, traditional and opinion leaders.