WaterAid Ghana

WaterAid and its partners have signed a formal agreement to forge a closer working relationship with local government.

The agreement, a Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), involves eleven district assemblies in Ghana and spells out the responsibilities when planning and implementing District Water and Sanitation Plans and rooted advocacy.

Find out more about the significance of the agreement

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

In the latest issue read about how the residents of Sabon Zongo made an appeal to WaterAid's Chief Executive, and find out the royal environmentalist Okyenhene's views on leadership, good governance and climate change. Plus, the latest on the issues and challenges of sanitation in Ghana.

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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.

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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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