WaterAid, Guinness Ghana Fun Walk Support Societies Lacking WASH Resources

WaterAid and Guinness Ghana fun walk

By Gh WASH Times

Statistics from WaterAid indicates that 3.4 million people lack access to an improved water source in Ghana with 86 per cent not having access to improved sanitation. While annually, 3,645 children under five years old die from poor water and sanitation in the country.

Water, Sanitation for Urban Poor: 550,000 Children Hygiene Behaviours Changed

Source: WSUP

A new water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project that seeks to educate 550,000 (five hundred and fifty thousand) children in Accra and Kumasi about the essence of washing their hands with soap and water at all times is set to be rolled out soon.

Everyone Needs A Place To Go

Toilet facility

Source: Jan Eliasson

Keo Samon, a rice farmer in southeastern Cambodia, had no toilet in her home.  Nor was there even an outhouse or latrine for Keo and her husband and five daughters.  Instead, they would defecate on land around the home, or in the rice fields.

More People Have Access to Cell Phones than Toilets – United Nations

Jan Eliasson, UN - Deputy Chief

Source: Jan Eliasson, UN Deputy Secretary-General

A new United Nations study has found that more people around the world have access to a cell phone than to a working toilet.

Climate Change Threatens Food Security of Urban Poor - Report Warns

A woman farming in Africa

Source: IIED

Policies to increase food security in the global South focus too much on rural food production and not enough on ensuring poor people can access and afford food, especially in urban areas, says a report published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

Hydro power Contributes To Water Management in a Climate-Constrained World

A Hydropower Plant

Source: IHA

On the occasion of World Water Day, the International Hydro power Association (IHA) called on the sector to use hydropower to help manage water in a climate-constrained world.

Importance of Social Accountability in Water, Sanitation Projects

Source: Emmanuel Ato Quansah

Extension Services Specialist

CWSA, Upper West Region

The Government of Ghana (GoG) has been supported greatly by Development Partners (DPs) in the provision of sustainable portable water, sanitation and hygiene projects throughout the ten regions of Ghana particularly in the rural-sub sector since 1994.