The 2022 Schools Sanitation Solutions (SSS) contest ended here on Sunday night with the crowing of a new Child Sanitation Diplomat to carry on the advocacy towards achieving Ghana’s sanitation targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Maame Akua Ohenewa Gyima, 11-year old first-year Junior high school pupil from the Dawhenya Methodist Basic School, […]
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PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO COMMISSIONS €37.6 MILLION UPPER EAST REGION WATER SUPPLY PROJECT
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday, 5th August 2022, commissioned the €37.6 million Upper East Region Water Supply Project, as part of his tour of the Upper East Region. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the Upper East Region Water Supply System will provide the people of Bolgatanga, Navrongo, Paga and its […]
Klottey-Korle benefits from 421 households toilets—Minister
Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has told Parliament the Klottey-Korle constituency has benefited from four hundred and twenty-one (421) One-House-one toilet scheme introduced as government’s flagship projects. According to her the scheme has so far provided 305,360 low-in-come population within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water project funded […]
CONIWAS petitions CHRAJ over WASH facilities in schools
The Coalition of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) yesterday petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on the lack of (Water, Sanitaion and Hygiene) WASH facilities with changing rooms in both public and private schools. According to the group, ‘when children are in school and have no water to […]
Data on water situation in Ghana: Data mismatch- GWJN Report
By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH The Ghana WASH Journalists Network (GWJN) formerly known as Ghana Watsan Journalists Network a voluntary not-for-profit organization comprising Ghanaian journalists who are interested in using their professional skills to promote high-quality standards in the country’s water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector has revealed that the water situation on the ground does not support data […]
Mole XXXII participants urge Ghana to plan ahead to preempt future emergencies
Some participants at the Mole XXXII conference have urged the government of Ghana and its partners in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector to make planning an active part of their mandates to preempt future emergencies. Speaking at the opening of the 2021 Mole Conference at Ejisu, near Kumasi Tuesday, Pierre Frank Laporte, the […]
Motor Court convicts driver of water pollution
The Sanitation and Motor Court in La convicted a driver of a waste management company, of pollution Tuesday. The court found Nuru Musah, driver of a cesspit emptier truck, guilty for dislodging faecal sludge into the Odaw River. The court imposed a fine of GHc2,400 on Musah, an employee of A & D Waste Company, […]