Kenyatta calls for highest commitment in managing water resources

By Edmund Smith-Asante, NAIROBI

President Uhuru Kenyatta opened the 18th AfWA Congress

Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, has called for the highest level of commitment from African governments in the management of the continent’s water resources.

‘Lavender Hill’ to go by end of 2016 — Collins Dauda

By Edmund Smith-Asante

The use of the ‘Lavender Hill’ as a liquid waste disposal site will cease by the end of this year, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has announced.

Nsumia landfill to be decommissioned in 2017

By Edmund Smith-Asante

It is a hive of activities at the Nsumia landfill site, a spectacle of tonnes of garbage which interestingly does not emit that putrid smell associated with heaps of rubbish.

AfWA holds 18th Congress in Nairobi

By Edmund Smith-Asante, NAIROBI

The Kenyatta International Convention Centre is venue for the congress 

The African Water Association (AfWA), today officially begins its 18^th International Congress and Exhibition in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on the theme, “Sustainable Access to Water and Sanitation in Africa.”

Zoomlion Foundation sponsors 220 school kids to learn about plastic recycling

By Edmund Smith-Asante

The schoolchildren being briefed on the premises of Cyclus Plastic Recycling Company by Mr Hayford Amponsah, Administrator of the company.

A subsidiary of the Jospong Group of companies, Zoomlion Foundation, has sponsored 220 schoolchildren on a study tour to learn plastic waste source separation and recycling at the Cyclus Plastic Recycling Company at Elmina in the Central Region.

MoFA launches programme to tackle climate change

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in charge of Crops, Dr Alhassan Yakubu Ahmed launching the document

A five-year Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Action Plan has been launched by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to serve as a vehicle for the implementation of the Agriculture and Food Systems Strategies of the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP) from 2016 to 2020.

Rewarding excellence in liquid waste management :MMDAs to compete for sanitation prize

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA



Operators of the cesspit emptiers work without protective gear

A whopping £1.43 million (GH¢8.44 million) is up for grabs by 139 metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs), which excel in designing and implementing liquid waste management strategies from now up to December 2018.