Tag: Water Resources Commission
Kpasenkpe Sub- basin plans activated-afforestation project to begin soon.
The Kpasenkpe Sub- basin has been activated and a re- afforestation exercise is to take off as part of implementation of the...
Contractors urged to build roads professionally over Rivers
Μr Aaron Adᴜna, the Upper East Regional Director of the Water Resources Commission has urged road contractors to professionaly build roads on major rivers...
Public advised to take Water and Environmental Issues Serious
Mr Ayidari-Naa Juati, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Volta Basin, has urged the public to refrain from activities that...
White Volta Emergency Flood Mitigation Project underway
A dredging exercise aimed at mitigating the impact of floods in the tributaries of the White Volta is under way in the six regions...
WRC suggests collaborative approach to saving degraded water bodies
Mr Aaron Aduna, Officer in charge of the White Volta Basin at the Water Resources Commission (WRC) in Bolgatanga, has called for increased collaboration...
Sanitation and Water Ministry Find Smart Ideas to Improve Sector
Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, has said the Ministry is making the appropriate effort to inject efficiency in the...
African Water Facility Funds Book On Re-optimising Dams
A book titled “Dams, Development and Downstream Communities: Implications for Re-optimising the operations of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams in Ghana”, was on Friday...
Trans-boundary cooperation is of vital value to Ghana’s Volta Basin
Mr Aaron Aduna, Upper East Regional Coordinator of the Water Resources Commission, has said there is the need for committed investments in regional and...
Water Resources Commission to establish a unit for dam safety
The Water Resources Commission (WRC) is to establish a Dam Safety Unit that will inspect and ensure that dams and bridges are constructed in...
Illegal Mining In Ghana Affects Ivory Coast Lagoons
A delegation from Ivory Coast would today hold diplomatic talks with Ghanaian officials over effects of illegal mining in Ghana having rippling effects in...
10 Illegal Miners Reminded For The 3rd Time
The Sekondi High Court One, on Monday remanded into prison custody for the third time, five Chinese and their five Ghanaian counterparts who were...
UNESCO Ready To Strengthen Water Security
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has called for the harnessing of the contributions of science and innovation for water security.
Mr...
All steps must be taken to protect, conserve Ghana’s freshwater
All steps must be taken to protect and conserve all of Ghana's fresh water bodies across the country in order to avoid shortage of...
Ghana Fall Short In Fish Production
Madam Elizabeth Naa Afoley Quaye, the Minister-designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture, has disclosed that the country has huge fish production deficit with over 600,000...
Keep your water resources protected – WRC
She said water has no substitute and should, therefore, be owned, protected and treated as a precious mineral by those living around and depending...
Tour Operators To Conserve Water Bodies For Attraction
The Union noted that among the committees of the Water Resources Commission, there were no tourism interests to be part of the decision making...
Water scarcity to hit Ghana
He said right now, Ghana is economically water scarce resources country and needed to manage its water resources sustainably.
The WRC Engineer said Ghana has...
Climate change raises cost of water production in Ghana
As government of Ghana seeks to achieve universal water coverage in 2025, economic activities around sources of raw water in the country have been...
Journalists schooled on environmental reporting
All 30 journalists attending a media training in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Monday agreed that there was need to do more stories on...
Fluoride level contribute to water scarcity in Bongo
Mr Nicholas Atubiga, Bongo District Crop Officer, has said underground water in the district contained a high concentration of flouride, thus causing dental fluorosis,...
Stakeholders assess water and sanitation situation in U/E
Open defecation in the Bolgatanga Municipality continues to be a bane to quality water supply to the people, Mr Aaron Aduna, Basin Officer of...
NGO’s find ways to improve Water and sanitation in the C/R
The Water Resources Commission (WRC) in collaboration with Global Water Partnership (GWP) has organized a stakeholders? workshop to assess water and sanitation situation in...
Upper East Region paves way the the protection of water bodies
It is needless stressing the point that in our quest to develop as a nation, ensuring the sustainable management of our water resources is...
GEMP support communities in Upper West Region
The Ghana Environmental Management Project (GEMP), has supported many communities in the Upper West Region to form and reactivate community environmental management committees.
Forty-three communities...
Human activities degrading the land-EPA
The Upper East Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Mr Asher Nkegbe, has observed that human activities accounted for the major causes of...
Encroaching Kolaa River
-Rivers play significant roles in human lives, but over the years, human activities coupled with a changing climate which manifests through erratic rainfall pattern...
Stakeholders Urged To Support Buffer Zone Project
Mr Asher Nkegbe, Upper East Regional Director of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has called for stakeholder support for the implementation of the Buffer Zone...
WRC To Establish River Basin Secretariats
The Water Resources Commission (WRC) has adopted an integrated cross-sector approach towards the tackling of peculiar problems faced by river basin catchment areas to...
The Need To Change Behavior Towards Water Usage
Mr Bernard Ampomah, Executive Secretary of the Water Resources Commission (WRC), has reiterated the need for a change in behavior towards the use of...
30 Journalists Trained In Water Management
About 30 journalists and media practitioners in the Upper West Region have undergone training in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) with a call on...