7 Countries train in sanitation advocacy

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Some of the participants at the Sanitation Advocacy Workshop

Experts from seven West African countries are meeting in Accra to discuss the problems of sanitation advocacy in the region and learn how best to use advocacy to influence better investment in sanitation.  

We have no research on our shelves – CSIR

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

 The Director-General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr Victor Agyeman, has spoken against the notion that many of the country’s research findings are gathering dust on shelves.

Aquaculture polluting water sources

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Fish farming as practised in the country’s water bodies is causing major pollution and threatening the quality of drinking water, the Principal Basin Officer of the Densu Basin, Mr Ronald Abrahams, has stated.

Weija Lake area to get military base

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Plans are advanced for the establishment of a military base near the Weija Lake to prevent further pollution of one of Accra’s major water sources.

Ghana to achieve water for all by 2025

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Mr Charles Nimako, Safe Water Network Country Director addressing the forum

The Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr Sampson Ahi, has stated that there are plans to enable every Ghanaian have access to potable water by the year 2025.

Ghana to experience water scarcity by 2025

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has warned that the country would have severe shortages of water in a decade if immediate steps were not taken to check pollution of its water resources.

Budget allocation for water, sanitation inadequate

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA

Mr Benjamin Arthur

The Executive Secretary of the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS), Mr Benjamin Arthur, has told journalists at a media engagement last Thursday that the total budgetary allocation of GH¢294.43 million for agencies and departments in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector was woefully inadequate.