News:
October 11, 2018
Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has said Ghana has a lot to do in getting clean water and sanitation in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) six (6).
According to the Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, government under President Akufo-Addo has made it a policy to provide safe water and lot is being done to cover urban and community water.
She further pointed out that in the area of sanitation she is so glad that there has been provision of house hold toilets.
And added that until people have household toilets, community toilets would be provided. She was however quick to add that, “providing toilet in households gives individuals dignity, privacy and addresses issue of quality of life and helps improve them.
She made this remarks when the WHO country representative Dr. Owen Laws Kaluwa paid a courtesy call on her and invited her for a high level WHO meeting to be hosted by Ghana next week.
Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah, indicated that she would be at the high level conference with the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman and was happy that Ethiopia and Uganda would also be participating in this high level meeting.
She advised that, “we should all avoid bad conducts like polluting the air and water, with polluted water we would have water born diseases and with air we would also have air born diseases”, she lamented.
“Coincidentally we visited some part of Accra to ascertain the sanitation condition, we would need a lot of funding to ensure that we have good sanitation, President Akufo-Addo has tackle the issue of illegal mining galamsey. We are tackling garbage especially plastics, I would say Ghana Water Company produces one of the best waters under WHO standard”.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com