WaterAid Ghana

The Local Millennium Development Goals initiative report discusses local government and water and sanitation delivery. It explores the different facets of working with local governments to overcome their peculiar challenges to delivering WATSAN services and work towards successfully fulfilling their responsibilities.

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WaterAid Ghana produces a quarterly newsletter - Dawuro - to highlight both national and international water and sanitation issues.

In the latest Dawuro read about how water and sanitation supply is crucial for education in Ghana for improving school attendance and attracting teachers. Also, find out about the water and sanitation sector's new website, about WAG's latest country strategy and more.

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Water for African Cities is a joint UN-HABITAT and Ghana Government project involving several partners, including WaterAid Ghana, Ghana Water Company Limited, Ghana Education Service and the Water Resources Commission.

The project aims to provide water and sanitation services to deprived urban communities and actively seeks to involve them in the process.

Find out more about the project

On 4 December 2006, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution declaring 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation to help boost the slow and insufficient progress made in achieving the global target.

In Ghana, a National Planning Committee was inaugurated on 10 January 2008 to plan activities for the UN International Year of Sanitation.

Find out more about the Ghana's International Year of Sanitation

The low water table and the inaccessibility of areas along the Volta Lake in the Afram Plains has made it hard for communities living there to gain access to potable water as it is virtually impossible to get drilling rigs to the communities.

But now WaterAid partner APDO is using BioSand filters to ensure hard to reach communities gain access to clean water.

Find out more about the BioSand filter

A new approach, Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), innovated in Asia, has come to West Africa.

CLTS is community mobilisation and hygiene education approach that involves virtually no subsidy to users. WaterAid has piloted the approach in Nigeria and is promoting it in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali.

Find out more about this great new approach

There is an expression that says scarcity helps people to be innovative but the kind of innovations that come with water shortage are, to a great extent, not good for human health.

Emmanuel Addai makes the case for why the authorities need to increase investment in water resource management and water supply to save people from the dangerous strategies they are employing to cope with water scarcity. 

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