Open Defecation Claims 19,000 Lives In Ghana Annually
A World Bank report has revealed that 19,000 lives are lost in Ghana annually through the effects of open defecation ...
Tag: sanitation
Landlords Given 3 Months To Build Toilets
Landlords owning houses without conveniences in the Upper East Region of Ghana has been given 3 months -from now to ...
UNICEF Advocates For Information Sharing
UNICEF Ghana Chief of WASH, Mr. David Duncan, has advised WASH sector partners to share more information on WASH programme ...
‘Recognise Efforts of RICCS, DICCS’
Country Director of WaterAid Ghana, Mr. Mohammed Abdul-Nashiru, has expressed the urgent need to recognise efforts and contributions of the ...
GHA Cautioned Against Cholera Outbreak
Ghana Public Health Association (GPHA) has urged the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to immediately roll out preparedness and response plans ...
Kpeve Market Women Protest Against ‘killer’ Tolls
Traders in Kpeve Market in the South Dayi District of the Volta region have staged a protest against payment of ...
Wacam Clears Air On Report To Shun Kenyase Foodstuff, Fish
Wacam, a non-governmental mining advocacy group, has denied media reports suggesting that the organisation was spreading news that Ghanaians must ...
Residents Turn Classrooms Into Toilet In Asuogyaman District
The Asuogyaman District Education Directorate in the Eastern Region has threatened to close down the Serdom Basic School because residents ...
Gov’t To Develop -3year Strategic Plan For Water, Sanitation – Adda
Joseph Kofi Adda, Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, has disclosed that Government says it will in the coming days develop ...
Each Region To Get Two Waste Treatment Plants – Sanitation Minister Hints
Ghana has been grappling with waste management over the years owing to indiscriminate disposal of refuse and poor waste collection ...
Gov’t To Build Two Waste Management Plants All Regions
The government has revealed plans to build two waste management plants in all ten regions of the country to improve ...
‘Ensure Environmental Cleanliness’
The Acting President of Ga Traditional Council in the Greater Accra Region, Nii Dodoo Nsaki II, has called on Ghanaians ...
USAID, Partners Refurbish Sanitary Facilities In W/R
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Coco-Cola Company under its Water and Development Alliance, (WADA) programme, ...
“Trump Village” Unveiled In India Ahead of Modi US Visit
A rural Indian settlement with little electricity or running water renamed itself "Trump Village" on Friday in an unusual gesture ...
2 Communities Get Boreholes, Courtesy of Fendercare Marine Ghana
Nana Kwampong Aboah II, Krontihen of the Mpohor Traditional area, has expressed concern about the high pollution of water sources ...
The Rise of Tricycles In Waste Management [Report]
Disposal of waste within the capital, Accra, has become a daunting task as most private sanitation service providers seem not to ...
NGO To Spearheads Sanitation and Hygiene Programme
The Voice for Change (V4C) programme has been launched at Kasoa in the Awutu-Senya East Municipality of the Central Region ...
ASEMA, Kasoa Residents Find Ways To Tackle Environmental Sanitation
The Awutu-Senya East Municipal Assembly (ASEMA) and the citizens of Kasoa, one of the fastest growing towns in the Central ...
The Plague of the Poor
Cholera, which has hit war-ravaged Yemen with 100,000 suspected cases and 789 deaths, is a highly contagious waterborne bacterial disease ...
We Will Work With EPA To Make Accra Clean Again
The biggest private waste management company in the country, Zoomlion, has stated that it will work with critical state agencies assiduously ...