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.