Filed by Abdul Basit
The sustainable development goal 6 has the intention of ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Despite several efforts been made by various governments and international organizations to make sure that people get access to a regular supply of potable water. In Ghana, the issue isn’t different. Several governments have TRIED their best to extend water supplies to various part of the country. In December, 1998, the Community Water and Sanitation Agency was established by an act of parliament (ACT 564) with the mandate to facilitate the provision of safe drinking water and related sanitation services to rural communities and small towns in Ghana. Other institutions established by the government included the Ghana Water Company Limited. This company is responsible for the production and distribution of potable water to the urban population which constitutes about 40 percent of the entire Ghanaian population.
Despite these tremendous efforts been made by various government and international bodies to ensure that there is a regular and a sustainable supply of potable water to residents, there are several factors that tend to hinder the progress been made in championing this agenda. As Ghana joins the rest of the world today to mark world water day the Ashant regional directorate of GWCL has taken measures to protect the Barekese and Owabi dams by planting thousand trees around the catchment area to prevent siltation, the exercise was undertaken by school children in the Atwima Nwabiagya district together with staffs of GWCL, Addressing a durbur to commemorate the day at Owabi dam site, the Ashanti regional chief production manager of GWCL Joseph Azumah has caution encroachers around the Dam site to desist from polluting the main sources of drinking water for the people of the Ashanti region,
"Man can survive without food for some days but am not sure a man can survive without water for a day". Water is an essential element in the daily life of a man. It is used in undertaking a lot of activities. This therefore explains why water sources should be treated with outmost care in order not to deplete them. Sustainability of our water supply sources should be key in the agenda of every government, individual or an organization. The future generations will need water to survive just like the current generation. No man should therefore be allowed to engage in any activity that will endanger the lives of the future generation in terms of access to potable and sustainable water supply. Appropriate measures should be kept in place to protect our water supply sources and to save Ghana the risk of having to import water in the next ten to twenty years.
The President of Friends of rivers and water bodies Nana Dwomoh Sarpong in an interview revealed that three out of five Ghanaian drinking water sources are reported to be contaminated by human waste. This therefore kept the people who consumed water from these sources at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and polio. He also mentioned that Ghana has badly polluted water sources that tend to increase the cost of water treatment. World wide it is estimated that 663 million people are living without safe water supply close to their homes. This therefore forced them to trek to distance places in search for water. Wasting precious time and copping with the health hazards of consuming contaminated water.
The sustainable development goal 6 has the intention of ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Despite several efforts been made by various governments and international organizations to make sure that people get access to a regular supply of potable water. In Ghana, the issue isn’t different. Several governments have TRIED their best to extend water supplies to various part of the country. In December, 1998, the Community Water and Sanitation Agency was established by an act of parliament (ACT 564) with the mandate to facilitate the provision of safe drinking water and related sanitation services to rural communities and small towns in Ghana. Other institutions established by the government included the Ghana Water Company Limited. This company is responsible for the production and distribution of potable water to the urban population which constitutes about 40 percent of the entire Ghanaian population.
Despite these tremendous efforts been made by various government and international bodies to ensure that there is a regular and a sustainable supply of potable water to residents, there are several factors that tend to hinder the progress been made in championing this agenda. As Ghana joins the rest of the world today to mark world water day the Ashant regional directorate of GWCL has taken measures to protect the Barekese and Owabi dams by planting thousand trees around the catchment area to prevent siltation, the exercise was undertaken by school children in the Atwima Nwabiagya district together with staffs of GWCL, Addressing a durbur to commemorate the day at Owabi dam site, the Ashanti regional chief production manager of GWCL Joseph Azumah has caution encroachers around the Dam site to desist from polluting the main sources of drinking water for the people of the Ashanti region,
"Man can survive without food for some days but am not sure a man can survive without water for a day". Water is an essential element in the daily life of a man. It is used in undertaking a lot of activities. This therefore explains why water sources should be treated with outmost care in order not to deplete them. Sustainability of our water supply sources should be key in the agenda of every government, individual or an organization. The future generations will need water to survive just like the current generation. No man should therefore be allowed to engage in any activity that will endanger the lives of the future generation in terms of access to potable and sustainable water supply. Appropriate measures should be kept in place to protect our water supply sources and to save Ghana the risk of having to import water in the next ten to twenty years.
The President of Friends of rivers and water bodies Nana Dwomoh Sarpong in an interview revealed that three out of five Ghanaian drinking water sources are reported to be contaminated by human waste. This therefore kept the people who consumed water from these sources at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and polio. He also mentioned that Ghana has badly polluted water sources that tend to increase the cost of water treatment. World wide it is estimated that 663 million people are living without safe water supply close to their homes. This therefore forced them to trek to distance places in search for water. Wasting precious time and copping with the health hazards of consuming contaminated water.
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