Sanitation

1,068  Three days after two brothers were allegedly shot and killed by a Forestry Commission taskforce at a community mining site in Mfante, the divisional office of the Commission at Mankranso remains shut. The youth of Pokukrom in the Ahafo Ano South-East District and the family of the two murdered brothers have issued a four-day […]

1,021  The Executive Director of the Nature and Development Foundation says he is not surprised at a company’s decision to seek permission for mining license for the Kakum National Park in the Central Region. Dr. Mustapha Seidu highlighted that the floodgates for the depletion of the country’s forest reserves were opened with the enactment of […]

1,280  Stakeholder organisations in the forestry and environment space have called for an immediate review of the legislative instrument (L.I) on mining in forest reserves, Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulation 2022 (L.I 2462). According to the Nature and Development Foundation (NDF), A Rocha Ghana, WACAM and Oxfam, the current regulation was fraught with […]

1,235    The Ghana National Association Of Garages has desilted choked gutters in Suame -Magazine. The move is to ensure that the auto mechanics have some sigh of relief when it rains. Mr.Lukeman Muhammed Nuhu Apiedu, Chairman for the Association explained that, the mechanics have been going through havoc anytime it rains. According to him, […]

1,864  Ing. George Asiedu ,Coordinator for Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA/GKMA SWP) has stated that, since the inception of the project, they have constructed about 59,000 potable biodigester toilets for households in low-income urban communities in Accra and Kumasi with 598 gender-friendly for schools and health facilities in […]

1,196  On Monday, 23rd October 2023, the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources attended an event organized by the Ghana Water Company and commended them for their great initiatives and advised Ghanaians on proper ways of protecting our water bodies. At the event the Minister commended the Ghana Water Company for the initiation of an […]

1,346  The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has held a tariff education at the Wesley College of Education in Kumasi, with a call on the students to speak up against the dangers of illegal mining. It has urged Ghanaians to join the fight against the canker, which is known as galamsey, since it has increased […]

1,307  The chief of Kodiekrom in the Oforikrom municipality in the Ashanti Region, Nana Kofi Owusu I, has set in motion a monthly community clean-up up exercise to be adopted by his community members.   According to him, the clean-up exercise initiative shall focus on bringing together communities like Kotei and Deduako who are the […]

1,058    The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, in collaboration with the World Bank Supervisory Team, will embark on a monitoring visit to the ongoing Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project from Monday, October 9, to Friday October 13, 2023. The US$125 million project is a sequel to the parent GAMA Sanitation […]

1,356  The Media Coalition Against Open Defecation (M-CODe) has called on the government and development partners to extend the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) Sanitation and Water Project (GKMA, SWP) to other parts of the country. Mr. Francis Ameyibor, the M-CODe National Convenor, has stressed the need for expansion to ensure that the citizenry outside […]