Government says it owes waste collectors and operators of landfill sites across the country about 800 million cedis, a situation that is crippling waste management efforts. Managers of landfill site...
The Komenda Edina Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has fined five persons, including an Assembly Member, for an open defecation at beach. The five were not taken to court...
Homeowners in the Kumasi metropolis without toilet facilities in their homes will soon face prosecution, Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi, has warned....
A World Bank report has revealed that 19,000 lives are lost in Ghana annually through the effects of open defecation and its related poor sanitation diseases. This is because of the high rate of the...
UNICEF Ghana Chief of WASH, Mr. David Duncan, has advised WASH sector partners to share more information on WASH programme implementation in the rural areas which were yielding results in order to...
Country Director of WaterAid Ghana, Mr. Mohammed Abdul-Nashiru, has expressed the urgent need to recognise efforts and contributions of the Regional Interagency Coordinating Committees (RICCS) and...
Traders in Kpeve Market in the South Dayi District of the Volta region have staged a protest against payment of market tolls which they claim does not inure to their benefit. The aggrieved traders,...
The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly has topped the list of open defecation areas in the Northern Region. This is the third consecutive time the metropolis has scored zero marks in a ranking which...
Joseph Kofi Adda, Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, has disclosed that Government says it will in the coming days develop a three-year strategic plan for the water and sanitation sector. This,...
The government has revealed plans to build two waste management plants in all ten regions of the country to improve sanitation. The issue of collection, management and disposal of solid waste,...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Coco-Cola Company under its Water and Development Alliance, (WADA) programme, have provided sanitary facilities to be used by...
The Voice for Change (V4C) programme has been launched at Kasoa in the Awutu-Senya East Municipality of the Central Region with a call on the citizenry to ensure improved sanitation and hygiene in...
China is taking care of a pressing need: Authorities have installed or upgraded over 50,000 lavatories in a "national toilet revolution" designed to clean up filthy public restrooms. Relief is coming...
The Indian government has announced plans to roll out ‘Swachh Bharat Toilet Locator’ in 85 cities by 2 October 2017. The app is available for download on the Google Play Store to help people...
The $150 million World Bank-funded Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water Project will benefit from an extension and another opportunity to reach some targets despite no...
The Ghana Youth Climate Coalition with the support of US Embassy, Ghana has launched a community sanitation project to improve sanitary condition in communities within the Ashanti Region. The project...
The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources has hinted of plans to set up a National Sanitation Authority to manage issues of sanitation in the country. According to the sector minister, Joseph...
The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources has hinted of plans to set up a National Sanitation Authority to manage issues of sanitation in the country. According to the sector minister, Joseph...
The Bolgatanga Magistrate Court presided by Mr Osman Abdul-Hakeem, has begun an exercise to prosecute landlords who do not have toilet facilities attached to their buildings. This follows a directive...
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...
