Protect Ghana Water Bodies
Parliament yesterday observed International World Water Day, with a call on Ghanaians to devise ways to treat and re-use waste water. The Members of Parliament (MPs) said the re-use of waste water...
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Kyebi Left With Single Borehole As Treatment Plant Shuts Down
Activities of illegal miners have led to the shutdown of the Ghana Water Company treatment plant at Kyebi in the East Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region. The treatment plant which takes water...
Traders Appeal To AMA To Deepen Dialogue On Demolition Exercise
The United Traders Forum (UTF), a national association of petty traders, has appealed to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to deepen dialogue with the leadership of micro traders to develop a...
Betway Ghana, 4Change Inititiave Support Oyarifa , Accra Psychiatric Hospital
Betway Ghana, a leading online sports betting outfit, and 4 Change Initiative a Non-Governmental Organization has provided a 7,500 litre water storage system to the people of Oyarifa in the La...
Tap Water 99% Safer Than Packaged Water
Water produced by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) for domestic and industrial uses is safer for consumption than 99 per cent of packaged water on the market, Head of Corporate Communications...
We Can No Longer Tolerate ‘galamsey’ Activities
The fight against ‘galamsey’, he noted is a collective responsibility of everyone The Eastern regional Minister, Hon. Eric Kwakye Daffour has bemoaned the negative impact of ‘galamsey’...
In War-Scarred Gaza, Water Pollution Behind Health Woes
More and more Gazans are falling ill from their drinking water, highlighting the humanitarian issues facing the Palestinian enclave that the UN says could become uninhabitable by 2020. The situation...
Let’s Protect Our Water Bodies To Save Life!
YESTERDAY (March 22) marked World Water Day. The day—an observance created by the United Nations in 1993—is aimed at tackling water crisis. WATER is a fundamental human need without which...
Salvage of South Korea’s Sewol Ferry
South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry emerged from the waters on Thursday, nearly three years after it sank with the loss of more than 300 lives in one of the country's worst maritime disasters. The...
Marking World Water Day: Ghanaians Still Lack Access To Safe Water Despite Progress
Data released by Afrobarometer, a pan-African, non-partisan research network, indicates that a total of 663 million people globally do not have access to clean water. This was contained in an...
Galamsey Destroying Water Bodies In Ghana
The imminent threat of Ghana’s water resources running dry in a few years gets scarier by the day. Water treatment plants are being shut down one after the other almost every time, due to...
Awake Water Marks World Water Day
Officials and distributors of Awake Purified Drinking Water joined Ghanaians and the world to observe this year’s World Water Day with a call on Ghanaians to drink quality water and to protect...
Water Shortage To Hit World Soon – Activist
The founder and president of Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, Nana Dwomoh-Sarpong, has said by the time the world population hits 9 billion, there would not be enough water to serve people living...
Birim Pollution Forces Shutdown of Water Plant In Kyebi; Residents Resort To One Borehole
Residents at Kyebi in the Akim East Municipality of the Eastern Region queue at the only borehole in the area to access potable water. Their taps have stop running for months. The Ghana Water Company...
Sharing Water With Cattle [Report]
Did you know that 663 million people live without safe water supply close to their homes, making them spend countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts...
3 Out of 5 Ghanaians Drink Water Contaminated By Human Waste
Three out of every five Ghanaian drinking water are reported to be contaminated by human waste, putting them at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio. This revelation was made by...
Galamsey, Pollution Destroying Water Bodies In Ghana – Water Company
The imminent threat of Ghana’s water resources running dry in a few years gets scarier by the day. Water treatment plants are being shut down one after the other almost every time, due to...
Galamsey, Pollution Destroying Water Bodies In Ghana
The imminent threat of Ghana’s water resources running dry in a few years time gets scarier by the day. Water treatment plants are being shut down one after the other almost every time, due to...
World Water Day: One In Four Children Will Live With Water Scarcity By 2040
One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as a result of climate change, the UN has warned. Within two decades, 600 million children...
Water Carriers In Madagascar Bear Brunt of Global Crisis
As usual, they get up before dawn and, one by one, place their cans in a neat row at the base of the water pump, ready for another long day of waiting and carrying. For the water carriers of...