The illegal mining remains a major threat to River Pra and the Daboase water treatment plant in the Wassa East District, according to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in the Western Region. This is despite the expiration of the three-week ultimatum from the government for the cessation of illegal mining. Speaking to , the … Read more
GHANA yesterday marked World Water Day with a call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to intervene in the illegal mining activities currently going on in the country. World Water Day is celebrated March 22 every year to focus on the importance of universal access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene in developing and developed countries. However, … Read more
Figures from the Ghana Water Company Limited has revealed that the Western Region is losing a total of 5.3 millions gallons of water daily due to the increased activities of illegal miners in the Pra River. This means over half of the company’s customer base of 31,327 are denied of portable drinking water on daily … Read more
Figures from the Ghana Water Company Limited has revealed that the Western Region is losing a total of 5.3 millions gallons of water daily due to the increased activities of illegal miners in the Pra River. This means over half of the company’s customer base of 31,327 are denied of portable drinking water on daily … Read more
Figures from the Ghana Water Company Limited has revealed that the Western Region is losing a total of 5.3 millions gallons of water daily due to the increased activities of illegal miners in the Pra River. This means over half of the company’s customer base of 31,327 are denied of portable drinking water on daily … Read more
All rivers were not polluted in a day. All of us including you, yes you my reader saw the rivers polluted bit by bit, but we gave no attention to it. Each of us felt it was the work of that man. Perhaps we said to ourselves that people are paid with our taxes to … Read more
IT was our great song-writer, the late Owura Ephraim Amu, who confessed in his “Kente song” that: Now, Owura Amu was of Ewe [precisely, Peki] descent, but many of the lovely songs he wrote were composed in Twi. Thus, many more Ghanaians are fortunate enough to be familiar with his songs than would have been … Read more
The Kyebi Water Treatment plant has been shut down because the water has been left untreatable. The plant which serves much of the Eastern Region was shut down early on Tuesday due to the effects of illegal mining also known as galamsey on the plant. The Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Water Resources … Read more