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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN: Urban slum compounding Ghana’s open defecation menace
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN. Monday, January 5, 2015. Urban slum compounding Ghana’s open defecation menace. Ghana has a long way to go in achieving Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, a senior public official cautioned here on Monday. This is because, urban slums, unlike rural areas lack toilet facilities for households, making people defecate in drains around these slums while others also defecate in open spaces. She lamented the practice of people especially urban slum dwellers defecate in pol...
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN: January 2015
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN. Monday, January 5, 2015. Urban slum compounding Ghana’s open defecation menace. Ghana has a long way to go in achieving Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, a senior public official cautioned here on Monday. This is because, urban slums, unlike rural areas lack toilet facilities for households, making people defecate in drains around these slums while others also defecate in open spaces. She lamented the practice of people especially urban slum dwellers defecate in pol...
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN: How Germany avoided Cholera
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN. Wednesday, September 3, 2014. How Germany avoided Cholera. Na who cause am? So we want to die in the heat of this cholera epidemic and probably take solace in blaming the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) for not providing refuse containers? The death toll is nearing one hundred out of over 10,000 reported cases in 52 districts across seven of the country’s 10 regions, in just three months since the outbreak, I heard on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. I was therefore app...
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Working with old friends in Ghana | Knowledge streams
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Laquo; Great concert and must-have CD from Boi Akih. Innovative software helps sustaining infrastructure. Working with old friends in Ghana. I asked them how they could use me. In the end it turned out that an interactiv workshop sharing my 40 – year experience in journalism and WASH communication with the Ghana WASH Journalists Network. Journalists write and editors decide, so use economic and financial angles to water, sanitation and hygiene feature stories. Writing active and attractive headlines and ...
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN: Livelihoods causing increasing water treatment cost in Ashanti Region of Ghana
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN. Monday, March 30, 2015. Livelihoods causing increasing water treatment cost in Ashanti Region of Ghana. Story By Gifty Amofa,Kumasi. The cost of water production by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in Ashanti Region keeps increasing daily an official said here on Wednesday. This is due to economic and social activities by people living in communities in the catchment areas of the major sources of raw water for treatment in the region. 8220;The pollution compels...
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN: Climate change raises cost of water production in Ghana
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Climate change raises cost of water production in Ghana. By Justice Lee Adoboe. As government of Ghana seeks to achieve universal water coverage in 2025, economic activities around sources of raw water in the country have been causing an increase in the pollution rate of these water bodies. The group which included the Ghana Watsan Journalists Network (GWJN) had been in a five-day WASH Governance Workshop organized by the West Africa (WA) WAS...
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN: Asantehene calls for national emergency for clean environment
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN. Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Asantehene calls for national emergency for clean environment. Government has been advised to as a matter of urgency consider declaring a national emergency for a clean environment to bring together traditional rulers , local, health , and education authorities to find practical ways of saving the country from the health hazards as a result of the prevailing insanitary conditions. 8221; he questioned. 8220;What makes this more tragic is ...
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN: October 2009
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN. Monday, October 26, 2009. ABSENCE OF A RENEWABLE ENERGY LAW IN GHANA IS IMPEDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY IN GHANA. Juliet Degadzo, a member of the Ghana WATSAN Journalist Network recently participated in a seminar on Solar Energy and Biomass in Germany. She was part of a delegation invited by InWEnt under the auspices of the Ministry of Energy. She filed the following report. The participants have also agreed to create a platform for multi-sectoral approa...
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN: August 2009
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GHANA WATSAN JOURNALIST NETWORK GWJN. Thursday, August 20, 2009. An abandoned borehole discovered in a forest. The persistence of the Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr. Hannah Louisa Bissiw, has led to the discovery of a GH¢ 20,000 bore hole drilled in 2003. Mr Asigbey says “However, try as we did, we could not secure funding from the government to complete the mechanization process”. It took some determination from Dr. Bissew who was on familiarization visit and her team som...