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707 The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor has urged the Nungua Traditional Council and all stakeholders involved in the impasse over the Ramsar site to exercise restraint as his outfit seeks to find an amicable solution to the issue. Addressing the Chiefs and Elders of the Nungua Traditional Council on […]
783 Some selected fourteen health and educational institutions as well as public offices within the Kwadaso Municipality in the Ashanti Region are to benefit from institutional toilet facilities under the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (GKMA)sanitation project. The project which is being sponsored by the world bank and the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources assembled […]
865 Government has invested about $1 billion about into facilitating the provision of sustainable water and sanitation needs across the country, the sector Minister has revealed. According to Cecilia Abena Dapaah, government employed a Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach in tackling the rising demand for water and sanitation needs over the years. Mrs Dapaah made […]
1,047 Mr Musah Ibrahim, a consultant at Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) has expressed worry over Ghana’s performance in terms of accessing to safely managed water and safely Sanitation services in line with SDGs which is still low. Speaking at National Training Workshop on Sanitation on the theme, Achieving Open Defecation – Free Ghana […]
1,014 According to the United Nations Children’s Fund(UNICEF), there is a strong link between poverty and access to clean water. Poorer people are over 20 times more likely to spend more than 30 minutes collecting water than wealthier people. Human existence, whether in urban or rural areas, is heavily dependent on water […]
680 The Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah says the Birim River is one of the most polluted river bodies in the country. She attributed the pollution to the ‘galamsey’ menace in the Eastern Region. The Minister was responding to questions from the Ranking Member on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Kofi Okyere […]
845 The Convener for the Media Coalition against illegal mining, Dr Kenneth Ashigbey has accused the leadership of the Forestry Commission for the recent invasion of the Atewa forest reserve by illegal miners. He stressed that the invasion of the forest is due to the lack of supervision by the Forestry Commission. “The leadership of […]
979 Some 3,000 former small-scale illegal miners have been employed as oil palm plantation farmers under the Alternative Livelihoods Project in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region. The project seeks to curb illegal small-scale mining, otherwise known as “galamsey” in the area, and provide alternative employment for residents who hitherto were engaged in […]
744The Forestry Commission has demobilised an excavator in the Atewa Forest Reserve following reports of alleged illegal mining activities. The Commission in a press release said its officials on January 30, 2023, identified a mining operation outside the Forest Reserve, which has affected a portion of the Forest Reserve. “Following reports of alleged illegal mining […]
842 The Forestry Services Division (FSD) of the Forestry Commission says it will forcefully implement the ban on mining in the country’s forest reserves as directed, to protect the environment. It has therefore, cautioned persons who under the cover of darkness continue to flaunt the directive that they would be made to pay the price […]