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Improving water quality through integrated water resources management
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:08 authored by Adwoa Paintsil, Ronald AbrahamsThe Densu River supplies potable water to the more than 1 million people in Ghana. The water quality of
the river deteriorated as a result of the fast-uncontrolled urbanization and improper waste management
practices in the basin. The implications included high water treatment cost, loss of biodiversity, loss of livelihoods
and income, high disease prevalence rate and water use conflicts. The Water Resources Commission
of Ghana started implementing Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the basin in 2002. The
major step was to establish a Densu Basin Board to coordinate activities within the basin and manage it on
a holistic manner. This paper highlights the improvement in water quality as a result of activities initiated
in the Densu River Basin during the past few years. The activities are ongoing; hence, the results reported
here should be considered preliminary and may be enriched as new experience emerges from the Densu
Basin complemented with similar interventions in other river basins.
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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PAINTSIL, A. and ABRAHAMS, R., 2008. Improving water quality through integrated water resources management. IN: Jones, H. (ed). Access to sanitation and safe water - Global partnerships and local actions: Proceedings of the 33rd WEDC International Conference, Accra, Ghana, 7-11 April 2008, pp. 345-349.Publisher
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
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WEDC_ID:11354Language
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