Ghana to soon import water - Forestry Commission

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The mask 11 years ago

S.E.X before employment or appointment must stop. Employment must especially in government must be by qualification which should include BECE and SSSCE certificates.

Rape cases are on the increase in Ghana. Judges and WAJU ...
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S.E.X before employment or appointment must stop. Employment must especially in government must be by qualification which should include BECE and SSSCE certificates.

Rape cases are on the increase in Ghana. Judges and WAJU of the Ghana police force must do more to protect our society. Some people have become so notorious of raping and getting away with it. Many believe that it is a weapon capable of scarring individuals to the very soul and seize the least opportunity to use it; using it on the families of their political or business competitors. Not even those at the higher echelons of our society must get away with it. It is said that a man paid a student to rape the daughter of his business and political competitor. The rapist got away with it.

The number of court houses and judges in Ghana are inadequate especially in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The population has ballooned and changes have to be made. The same can be said of the number of police officers and the number of penitentiaries. On a visit to a number of court houses around the country I found the Ghana flag and the Ghana Coat of Arms (Seal) absent. This must change.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

If NDC corrupt administration is still
in Government, Ghana would continue to
be a hopeless state, sex before employment, loot and share employment in NDC Government, Rape, incompetency, snowball lies, arrogance, thievery, ...
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If NDC corrupt administration is still
in Government, Ghana would continue to
be a hopeless state, sex before employment, loot and share employment in NDC Government, Rape, incompetency, snowball lies, arrogance, thievery, brigand and total poor economical strategy.

If NDC Government headed by corrupt and President "Minnim Hwee" can to the
world Bank to ask for a loan of $156 million American Dollars for the purpose of buying Sanitary Pads for girls and our mothers in our country,
will it surprise who if water will be
imported in the country? It is imminent.
ema 11 years ago

YES MAHAMA GIVE THEM PETRO AND THEY WILL GIVE GHANA PULUTED WATER FROM THIER RIVERS WHAT A GREAT DEAL MAHAMA IS A SMART MAN WE ALL SEE IT

YES MAHAMA GIVE THEM PETRO AND THEY WILL GIVE GHANA PULUTED WATER FROM THIER RIVERS WHAT A GREAT DEAL MAHAMA IS A SMART MAN WE ALL SEE IT
Ayivor 11 years ago

This nation is finished

This nation is finished
dan 11 years ago

GHANA FAILD COUNTRY THAT CANT EVEN SUPLY CLEAN DRINKING WATER TO THEIR PEOPLE

GHANA FAILD COUNTRY THAT CANT EVEN SUPLY CLEAN DRINKING WATER TO THEIR PEOPLE
Paapa 11 years ago

Crazy conclusion. How on earth can we import water?

Crazy conclusion. How on earth can we import water?
Agbovi 11 years ago

Paapa, are you living in Ghana?4 months ago hospitals were using pure water for their operation.Drink water was scarce.There was no water from our Pipelines.We have imported water before, if you dont know.

Paapa, are you living in Ghana?4 months ago hospitals were using pure water for their operation.Drink water was scarce.There was no water from our Pipelines.We have imported water before, if you dont know.
Truth Razor 11 years ago

Masa before you advise someone make sure u noe wat u r talking about, there was no water shortage but system shut down that coursed the scare water. We've never imported water before Agbovi.LOL

Masa before you advise someone make sure u noe wat u r talking about, there was no water shortage but system shut down that coursed the scare water. We've never imported water before Agbovi.LOL
papa kofi 11 years ago

Ghana will soon import air if This Nation Destroyers Congress are not booted out from office for Ghanaian who loves his country Ghana to govern.Nation Downgraders Congress

Ghana will soon import air if This Nation Destroyers Congress are not booted out from office for Ghanaian who loves his country Ghana to govern.Nation Downgraders Congress
KWAME-BELGIUM 11 years ago

Why think of importing water? When one goes to Togo/Lome or the south, what you see is that in every house, there is a well and is connected with water pump. This makes it very easy for the people because they don't wait for ...
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Why think of importing water? When one goes to Togo/Lome or the south, what you see is that in every house, there is a well and is connected with water pump. This makes it very easy for the people because they don't wait for the government. This can be done in Ghana also.

Phd Water Engineer 11 years ago

I can assure you all that will not happen. The CEO should rather seek expert assistance and advice to solve the crisis

I can assure you all that will not happen. The CEO should rather seek expert assistance and advice to solve the crisis
G. K. Berko 11 years ago

Mr. 'Phd Water Engineer', please, do not give people any false hope. What the Forestry Commission boss said may be a little farther out but is quite possible. If you really are a Water Engineer, you may be dwelling on your th ...
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Mr. 'Phd Water Engineer', please, do not give people any false hope. What the Forestry Commission boss said may be a little farther out but is quite possible. If you really are a Water Engineer, you may be dwelling on your theoretical knowledge of how we could "easily" recycle water to doubt the distress alluded to.

However, there have been many instances where local Drinking Water Supplies have been strained and importing water from afar was necessitated. Such importation may be temporary but only if the necessary measures to improve the availability of water locally are undertaken.

California, in the USA is now seriously contemplating importing water from other States, up North, possibly. Some of the Western States in the USA are in some legal tussle over control of Aquifers (Underground Water Tables). The estimated cost of maintaining a sustenable Drinking Water source to California alone is said to run into Billions of Dollars. Many Cities are now even rationing Water via time slots.

The above scenario testifies to the possibility that Ghana could end up in similar straits, in spite of the fact that USA and Ghana are thousands of miles apart, and Oceanwide separate Countries. Yes, the technology to provide drinkable water from various sources, including even processed Waste Water, is available. But it all costs lots of money to build and use it. Obviously, we do not have to wait till it becomes necessary to utilize, say desalination of Sea Water, to provide our folks with Water to drink. We may not even have the money to build the plants for that. Our Politicians are clamoring for the lion's share of our Revenue-producing ventures and Resources for their personal wealth. If we do not push them now to take care of the Drinking Water situation, within the context of saving our Watershed areas, we would be caught flatfooted on the desert.

The point is that if we fail to act now, we WILL pay dearly to provide ourselves Drinking Water. That is no joke. Therefore, Mr. 'Phd Water Engineer' this is the time your help may be needed most. We do not have to come begging at a future date. If you are a Ghanaian, you must offer your assistance to the Government, or deal directly with the appropriate Communities to help correct the problem before it gets worse.

20 years ago, if anyone had said most Urban Dwellers in Ghana would be drinking sachet/portable Drinking Water, we would have booed that person. But now it is a daily reality. We must not wait any longer.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Papa Yaw. 11 years ago

No

No
USMAN 11 years ago

This is how far our useless university graduates in authority have brought us.

This is how far our useless university graduates in authority have brought us.
kopf 11 years ago

our enforcement is poor due to bribe so we have a long way to go.

our enforcement is poor due to bribe so we have a long way to go.
OH BLACKMAN . 11 years ago

NOTHING WILL WORK BETTER IN GHANA - UNTIL THE DAY WE WILL START RESPECTING OUR LAW . BLACK MAN WITH BLACK MENTALITY .

NOTHING WILL WORK BETTER IN GHANA - UNTIL THE DAY WE WILL START RESPECTING OUR LAW . BLACK MAN WITH BLACK MENTALITY .
ZoRRo 11 years ago

Wha a useless country that would be, for Ghana to import water and maybe from China, which supplies us with everything these days. What would be the use of our "independence" if we cannot help ourselves with anything ? Even t ...
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Wha a useless country that would be, for Ghana to import water and maybe from China, which supplies us with everything these days. What would be the use of our "independence" if we cannot help ourselves with anything ? Even things that are in abundance around us cannot be managed for posterity !
emmanuel osei asibey 11 years ago

Mr. Afari, did you really mean to say import water like literary? you might be joking. Maybe you made a rhetorical statement. Ghana will never import water. If say, Kolebu or Okomfo Anokye happen to have shortage of water, ...
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Mr. Afari, did you really mean to say import water like literary? you might be joking. Maybe you made a rhetorical statement. Ghana will never import water. If say, Kolebu or Okomfo Anokye happen to have shortage of water, it doesn't mean the country is running out of water. All it means is that those people in charge are not smart enough to make room for contingencies of that nature. Ghanaian leadership across the board must be proactive and not to sit idle by.
dan 11 years ago

we had it with your foolishness go back north fast and stop destroying ghana

we had it with your foolishness go back north fast and stop destroying ghana
Boateng 11 years ago

dan, when did deforestation start in Ghana?

In the early 80s, Rawlings started preaching the tree planting gospel. Fools in Ghana never understood him but continued to fell trees without thinking of the effects. Had ...
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dan, when did deforestation start in Ghana?

In the early 80s, Rawlings started preaching the tree planting gospel. Fools in Ghana never understood him but continued to fell trees without thinking of the effects. Had Ghanaians taken tree planting seriously we will not be where we are now. Ghana forests would have regenerated after 30 years!

How do you blame Mahama for this stupidity of Ghanaians? Stop it.

HOPE 11 years ago

You belong to a doomsday cult,thats total exageration

You belong to a doomsday cult,thats total exageration
Junior 11 years ago

Don't these immigrants pass through the airport to come to the country to engage in illegal mining? Do the chiefs and leaders/citizens see them digging? Why do they let them continue destroying the land?

Don't these immigrants pass through the airport to come to the country to engage in illegal mining? Do the chiefs and leaders/citizens see them digging? Why do they let them continue destroying the land?
man 11 years ago

Ghana is already importing water for our oilfields. Who cares. Sad indeed.

Ghana is already importing water for our oilfields. Who cares. Sad indeed.
afua 11 years ago

Let the Chinese hear this.

A nation of rivers with no water to drink.

Let the Chinese hear this.

A nation of rivers with no water to drink.
godsway 11 years ago

Why complain to me when you are to check that e do not loose our forest cover. If you can't work get out. period

Why complain to me when you are to check that e do not loose our forest cover. If you can't work get out. period
G. K. Berko 11 years ago

Surely, the Forest Commission did not fully do its job over the years past. However, the need to organize whole Communities to combat the deforestation problem is imperative. We all must do our bit to save the Forests. Ghana ...
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Surely, the Forest Commission did not fully do its job over the years past. However, the need to organize whole Communities to combat the deforestation problem is imperative. We all must do our bit to save the Forests. Ghana is in grave danger of losing much of her most basic life-supporting RNatural Resources. This is not just a doomsday scare-tactic. This is the reality of our distressed environment.

The Government alone, via the Forestry Commission, cannot do it. Right now, the Economy is not doing so well. And Resources which normally come from the Government and needed to do the job are shockingly lacking.

If we wait for the Government alone to find the Resources to protect, preserve and manage the Forests, we would not have any left before those Resources become adequately available.

The Forests are the People's Asset that the Government is only managing for our best permanent interests. Now, because many can't find other means of living, and others think it is easier to acquire wealth with those illegal operations in the Forests, there is a clamor for the Timber, Gold etc., in and under the Forests. The Forestry Officials supposed to be protecting the Forests have been overwhelmed, fatally attacked, and are almost ineffective in stopping the plunder of the Forest Resources.

It was not long ago when the edges of our Forests could reach as far as Buipe, in the Northern Region. Now, the Forests have shrunk to below Techiman, in B/A.

I was in Ghana in 2012, and had the occasion to travel around a bit. I was totally dumbfounded by the massive disappearance of our Forests and the Streams that used to meander under them. Most of the Streams in the deforested areas are now 'dead', with empty, dry bed. Many of these streams provided sources of drinking water to many Communities, and supported Agriculture.

What the Forest Commission is now alerting us to is even scarier. The Forests have since time immemorial sheltered the Headwaters of most of our River-Systems. For instance, the Afram Headwaters reside near Abofour and Kyekyewere, in the Ashanti Region. By 2012, much of the Forest Reserve sheltering the Afram Headwaters had been pillaged and laid almost bare. Almost all the huge canopy Class One and Two Timber Species, from Cedar to Wawa, and even Onyina had been cut. And the Teak Plantations that were created to serve as some intermediary buffer had also all been wantonly harvested without the proper precautions or the post-harvest care to regenerate them.

This is a most serious situation but since the loudest of us live in the Cities and do not directly see these changes to our environment, nothing significant has been asked of the Parliament and the Executive to intervene. And the Politicians do not listen to, or interact much with the rural folks. They do so only when it comes to seeking votes for re-election to send them back to their Aircondition luxurious homes and Offices in the Cities.

Right now, we have just begun IMPORTING Wood to supplement our local supplies. If not, we would have to depend upon low quality wood in the class 3 and 4 species brackets like Ofram, or worse, for our House Construction and Furniture. I even heard that some folks had begun to cut Mango Trees for lumber. That is most disappointing.

And added to the Wood Importation, we are now being alerted that we may soon begin to import Drinking Water!!

Such is the extent of our failed management of our most valuable, life-supporting Resources.

This is why I am addressing you and others who may be dumping the responsibility on only the Forest Commission to think twice about the situation and offer their help, even if it is just their voices, to whip our MPs and the President to action.

Long Live Ghana!!!
KWAA 11 years ago

Becourse of corruption,some Ghanaian officials are collabrating with foreigners especially Chinese to destroy our Forest in the name of "Galamsey".
To save our forest Government should band "galamsey" and setup a programme w ...
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Becourse of corruption,some Ghanaian officials are collabrating with foreigners especially Chinese to destroy our Forest in the name of "Galamsey".
To save our forest Government should band "galamsey" and setup a programme which will enble the youths to find an alternative job devoid of corruption.
SPIDER IN HIS WEB 11 years ago

'In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.'- Bob Marley.

'In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.'- Bob Marley.
jt. 11 years ago

Is Ghana just be coming a place where the politicians jut don't care about the people, or no law to protect the weak and all we think is power to steal money? Listen 4th June is not gone anywhere this time is going to be civi ...
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Is Ghana just be coming a place where the politicians jut don't care about the people, or no law to protect the weak and all we think is power to steal money? Listen 4th June is not gone anywhere this time is going to be civilians verses criminal politicians.
sam 11 years ago

it amazes me how we think as a nation. Anything that goes wrong is the NDC, Mahama govt. Come on it is not Mahama who goes to cut those trees? it is not Mahama who encourages us to litter our environment. We are very lazy and ...
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it amazes me how we think as a nation. Anything that goes wrong is the NDC, Mahama govt. Come on it is not Mahama who goes to cut those trees? it is not Mahama who encourages us to litter our environment. We are very lazy and irresponsible as a people and until we change for the better no Govt or president will be able to transform the nation for the better.
Where is the community leaders, where is the law enforcement agency, where is our social responsibility ? We need to take punitive measures against those engaging in that behavior. We can not afford as a nation to destroy all our forest and turn around and expect other nations to come to our aid. If the forestry commission can not do the job let us kick them out and get people ready to fix the problem

gloria usa 11 years ago

there are rivers all over Ghana we can'nt provide good clean water

there are rivers all over Ghana we can'nt provide good clean water
Ekanson 11 years ago

Where is the SADA money? What happened to the afforestation project?

Where is the SADA money? What happened to the afforestation project?
MOI 11 years ago

OH GHANA.

OH GHANA.
sonkrolo 11 years ago

Why don´t you people to plant more trees.

Why don´t you people to plant more trees.
STAFFORD 11 years ago

National,local and community tree planting exercises should begin immediately. All hands on deck...Every Ghanaian must ENDEAVOR to plant a tree, and daily maintain its growth..?

National,local and community tree planting exercises should begin immediately. All hands on deck...Every Ghanaian must ENDEAVOR to plant a tree, and daily maintain its growth..?
STAFFORD 11 years ago

We are blessed with all these natural resources plus the SEA WATER,to sustain life. We can purify our sea water and use it for any purpose necessary.

We are blessed with all these natural resources plus the SEA WATER,to sustain life. We can purify our sea water and use it for any purpose necessary.
adumtumi nyansafuo paa ni 11 years ago

We are importing water, tomatoes, yam, soup. Everything is imported. Please, Ghanaians if you all were wise, you have to give the country to the Asantes. Asantes are superior. They will make Ghana great. Look at what kuffour ...
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We are importing water, tomatoes, yam, soup. Everything is imported. Please, Ghanaians if you all were wise, you have to give the country to the Asantes. Asantes are superior. They will make Ghana great. Look at what kuffour did. My business was booming when kuffour was in power.
WHAAAAANA 11 years ago

akowa wei wagyimi paaaaa aaaa aaapa
OGWANYINI NANANE'W

akowa wei wagyimi paaaaa aaaa aaapa
OGWANYINI NANANE'W
Alex Kwofie New York 11 years ago

This is very disgusting and it is true Ghana's forests may soon give way to the proctection they accord our rivers.Most water bodies are destroyed and this should raise national concern. I was in one of the least developed co ...
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This is very disgusting and it is true Ghana's forests may soon give way to the proctection they accord our rivers.Most water bodies are destroyed and this should raise national concern. I was in one of the least developed countries of West Africa but amazingly all their water bodies are very clean flowing unobstructively to the atlantic ocean. The government should as a matter of urgency task the local chiefs to be custodians of our forests and water bodies and punish infiltrators. Forests serve as tourist attraction and the live of the people.Prez Mahama, I know you will act.
Kwawu Agbemenu 11 years ago

So what's really being done about preserving & conserving our forests? Any reforestation? At what rate? Public education about the importance of forests? Needed is not just talk, but the walk as well!!

So what's really being done about preserving & conserving our forests? Any reforestation? At what rate? Public education about the importance of forests? Needed is not just talk, but the walk as well!!
tomtom 11 years ago

This like any other situation in the country has laws in place to deal with the situation, but the law can not be enforced due to weak leadership in the country. The government must give the laws the strength and the backing ...
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This like any other situation in the country has laws in place to deal with the situation, but the law can not be enforced due to weak leadership in the country. The government must give the laws the strength and the backing to be very effective for the good of the country. A weak leadership poses more danger to the country than an effective dictatorship. So, parliament must take note of this and stand together in the interest of the nation.

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