Ghana’s Water Under Threat – Dr. Osmund Ansah–Asare

Director for Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Dr. Osmund Doudu Ansah – Asare has made a statement that the nation’s water bodies are under threat due to unregulated behavior of the people around such bodies and the effect of climate change.

Scarier is the fact that there would be no treatable water source, either surface or ground water by 2030, should the rate at which the country’s water sources are being polluted continued. Ansah have warned.

When speaking in an interview on Radio 1 100.7, Dr. Ansah said many of the country’s water sources had being polluted over the years with rubbish, chemical used in mining such us mercury and inorganic fertilizer used for agriculture, because Ghanaians don’t respect water and has taken it for granted.

But he cautioned that the combined effect of the increase in temperature, evaporation and the pollution of the country’s water bodies were plunging the country into severe water crises.

He stated that, the rate at which the Densu River is dying up had also increased this year per the research they made.

“Several test conducted water from many boreholes across the country showed that pollution of the groundwater had resulted in wholesome water from the borehole” he lamented.

He then advice anyone with a well or borehole can bring sample of the water to their office for research and provide treatment.

“This illegal mining has been going on for a very long time and it pollute the water to the extent that the level are quite high and our water bodies are being destroyed”, he stated.

Source: radiooneghana.com/Agyapong Michael