Soon: Ghana to import water!

Ghana may soon start importing water!  I can almost hear the entire nation shout, “God forbid!”  Cannot blame anybody for thus reacting; as a matter of fact, I did no less until the bare facts were presented to me. That was when I realised that the shout was actually only a wish. I wished the facts were wrong.

Dr Joseph Ampofo, the Director of the Water Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-WRI), and his team, however, are not wrong. The calamity Ghanaians are about to visit upon ourselves is the consequence of our inability, over the years, to curb the pollution and siltation of our water bodies.

Nonetheless, hear Dr Ampofo: “The next crisis to hit this nation after the ‘Dumsor’ is the water crisis.”

What is Ghana’s sin?

As I write, the Pra River is almost beyond redemption, destroyed by galamsey. Koforidua cannot use the Densu River. It has been so polluted that the only way Ghana Water Compa