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The World Bank supports both rural and urban water supply in Ghana. Community Water and Sanitation Program (CWSP) The Second Community Water and Sanitation Program was initiated in 2000 with support of a World Bank IDA credit of US$21.9 million, aiming at increasing access and supporting effective and sustained use of improved community water ...
Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, ... and air pollution in the far end of the drainage in Ghana.
The Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA Ghana) is an agency of Ministry, established by EPA Act 490 (1994). [1] The agency is dedicated to improving, conserving and promoting the country's environment and striving for environmentally sustainable development with sound, efficient resource management, taking into account social and equity issues.
In the 1990s, the government established the Korle Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project, aiming to restore the lagoon to a more natural state, reduce pollution, and increase water flow through it. [6] Around this time, the unplanned settlement of Old Fadama was established on the banks of the lagoon, its population peaking at around 30,000 ...
As of September 2024, 60% of Ghana's water bodies had suffered pollution due to galamsey. [25] The illegal practice has also led to forest degradation, [ 26 ] encouraged by the passage of Legislative Instrument L.I 2462 in 2022, which permitted mining in forest reserves.
Air pollution in Africa is coming to the forefront and must not be ignored. For example, in South Africa the mercury levels are severe due to coal combustion and gold mining. Mercury is absorbed from the air into the soil and water. [19] The soil allows the crops to absorb the mercury, which humans ingest.
The Densu River is a 116 km long river in Ghana rising in the Atewa Range. [2] It flows through an economically important agricultural region, supplies half the drinking water to Ghana's capital city of Accra. The river ends in an ecologically significant wetland delta [3] on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. [4]
Ghana; Continent: Africa: Geographic coordinates ... habitat destruction, water pollution: Satellite image of Ghana. Ghana is a West African country in Africa, ...