Poor sanitation and river body pollution are the most threatening environmental problems in the Ghanaian society, a new study has found. The Ghana Environmental Concern Meter (GECM), an annual public...
Public toilets - a chain in the line of good sanitation Public toilets are built in communities to solve issues of open defecation and prevent diseases in various communities across the country. Its...
Public toilets – a chain in the line of good sanitation By Alex Blege Public toilets are built in communities to solve issues of open defaecation and prevent diseases in various communities across...
Public toilets are built in communities to solve issues of open defaecation and prevent diseases in various communities across the country. Its maintenance is crucial to the prevention of diseases...
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the next NDC administration under his watch will work towards ending the age-old menace of open defecation by 2021. The President said this at the Banquet...
Fifteen Ghanaian artists, 15 genres of art and 15 different media, with one goal; use artwork to contribute to the fight against open defecation. The artists, selected across the country, will be...
Ghana was part of the 189 countries that came together in the year 2000 to face the future and brig to end Famine, Draught, Poverty, Wars, and Plagues. Leaders from all the 189 countries with the...
· Pathogen and organic pollution rises in more than 50% of river stretches in Africa, Asia and Latin America · Asia hit hardest by rise in severe pathogen pollution with up to a half of all river...
Africa is a continent of astonishing potential. But if it is to build the future its citizens deserve, there is a need to increase efforts to remove the barriers holding it back. None is greater than...
Scientists at Belgium’s University of Ghent say they’ve created a machine that turns urine into potable water, and fertilizer, using solar energy. The scientists have since crafted small batches...
According to data provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Health Observatory data repository, Ghana loses Ȼ1.13 billion every year in addressing the issue of open defecation whilst...
Osu cemetery, one of the final resting places in the city for the dead, has currently been turned into a defecation and dumping site.
In an interview, Mr William Totimeh, the sexton at the cemetery,...
Nana Oye Lithur, Ghana's minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, has extolled efforts by Zoom Foundation to involve children in the campaign to rid the country of filth.
The ministers...
The Shame of Lavender Hill -Accra's Greatest Shame
Poor sanitation and the inefficient human waste disposal has always been a problem in Accra, Ghana's largest city.
It is not uncommon to see storm...
