AMA Must Act On This Call!
Last week Parliament’s Select Committee on Local Government, chaired by Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Madam Patricia Appiagyei, toured the Lavender Hill/Mudor Waste...
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AMA Must Act On This Call!
Latest: AMA must act on this call! We Blend Our Vision With Truth & Enlightenment LAST week Parliament’s Select Committee on Local Government, chaired by Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and...
Stop Trucks From Dumping Fecal Matter Into the Sea – Committee On Local Government Tells AMA
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government, has instructed the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to stop trucks from continually dumping fecal matter into the sea immediately. The...
MPs Laud SSGL Ltd Over Lavender Hill Treatment Plant
Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government have commended Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited (SSGL) for its operations at the Lavender Hill Waste Treatment Plant at Korle Gonno in...
MPs Push For End To Dumping of Faecal Matter Into Sea
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government wants the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to crack the whip and stop sewage companies from dumping faecal matter into the sea. Speaking to...
AMA Charged To Stop Dumping of Fecal Matter Into Sea
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government has called on the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to immediately enforce stricter regulations to stop the dumping fecal matter into the sea....
GGBL Responds To Water Crisis At KATH
Water supply and sanitary conditions at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has received a major boost following the intervention of Beverages giant Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL). The...
California Declares Stubborn Drought Officially Over
California Governor Jerry Brown declared Friday the official end of the state's drought that lasted more than five years. Despite lifting the drought emergency in all but four counties, the governor...
Do Not Abandon National Sanitation Day
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ledzokuku Constituency, in the Greater Accra Region, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, has asked Ghanaians not to abandon the National Sanitation Day (NSD) because there is...
Public Toilets Pose Danger
Residents of Dominase, a farming community in Gomoa East District of the Central Region, are complaining about health hazards posed by two public places of convenience in the area. According to the...
Public Toilets Pose Danger
Residents of Dominase, a farming community in Gomoa East District of the Central Region, are complaining about health hazards posed by two public places of convenience in the area. According to the...
Ghana To Turn Water Reservoirs Into Security Zone Areas
Ghana is in the process of turning all water reservoirs into security zones to safeguard the provision of the quality treated water for the people. The Executive Secretary of the Water Resources...
We Need About $2 Billion To Execute Water Projects- Patrick Boamah
A Deputy Minister-designate for Water Resources and Sanitation, Patrick Yaw Boamah says Ghana needs about $2 billion to execute projects that would provide potable water to the people. “We need...
How To Deal With Kibera’s ‘flying Toilets’
Streets in Nairobi slum are littered with human waste, prompting locals to develop innovative solutions to the problem. Wherever you walk in Kibera, the Kenyan capital's biggest slum, there's one...
New Accra Mayor To Give Agbogbloshie ‘special Attention’
Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Mohammed Adjei Sowah says his administration is going to turn attention to Agbogbloshie in a move to transform the country’s biggest slum....
Bring Back Our Rights To Water
What is the circumference of the planet earth? No need to be specific, but we know it would make a baobab tree look very, very small. With that in mind, consider this, if all the people living in...
Zoomlion Appeals To Government To Reduce Import Duties On Waste Collection Trucks
Waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has appealed to government to consider a cut on import duties on waste collection trucks for smaller organizations. According to Zoomlion, smaller...
‘Protect Ghana’s Water Bodies’
Executive Director of Water Resources Commission (WRC), Mr. Ben Ampomah, has called on government and other stakeholders in the sector to device ways and means to protect the country’s water...
Let’s Rescue Birim River From Galamsey Operations
Water in the Birim River is fast becoming untreatable for human consumption as a result of high levels of pollution by operations of illegal miners popularly known as galamsey, the Eastern Regional...
Water Everywhere But Little To Drink
Water, Water Everywhere Not Any Drop To Drink Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is as relevant to the Ghanaian situation as it was when the wide sea could not provide needed...