Water Resources Commission urges safety of Tano River Basin
The Water Resources Commission (WRC) has sensitised Senior High School college students, in addition to private and non-private establishments on water administration, calling for its considered use.
It additionally inspired the safety of water our bodies throughout the Tano River Basin, a trans-boundary basin between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.
Mr Solomon Danso-Ankamah, a Principal Officer and the Head of Tano Basin of the WRC, who made the decision, mentioned the Tano River Basin remained a significant supply of potable ingesting water to many Ghanaians, therefore the necessity to protect it.
He was talking at a day’s schooling and consciousness creation discussion board on water sources administration organised by the WRC at Techiman, the Bono East Regional capital, saying entry to scrub and high quality remained important to human well being and survival.
The discussion board was to sensitise the general public on the necessity for them to protect water our bodies for a safer life.
Mr Danso-Ankamah highlighted the advantages of managing and defending water our bodies throughout the basin together with improved livelihoods and aqua-culture, in addition to decreased water borne and associated ailments, saying “without safe water life can’t go on”.
Mr Yaw Konadu Yiadom, the Assistant officer on the Tano River Basin mentioned water remained a primary life want, important and indispensable useful resource for human safety.
“It’s likewise at the core of adjustment to environmental changes, serving as the critical connection between the climate system, human society and the environment (UN-water, 2015),” he said.
He defined that the Tano River Basin space lined roughly 16,060 Kilometre-square the place about 14,875 Km² which is 92.6 % lies in Ghana and about 1,185 Km² about 7.4 % in Ivory Coast.
My Yiadom urged the general public to desist from unlawful alluvial mining (mining in water our bodies), saying that unhealthy observe remained detrimental not solely to the river as a result of but additionally to human well being, and referred to as on farmers to cease farming alongside the riverbanks too.
Some college students of the Techiman Mount Carmel Girls Senior High School (SHS) and Techiman SHS in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, mentioned they have been now enlightened and promised to assist defend the water our bodies by sensitising their colleagues to desist from the observe of throwing garbage in rivers and streams.
Source: GNA
