THE Public Relations Officer of the Water Resources Commission (WRC), Mrs Adwoa Munkua Dako, has urged Ghanaians to manage water resources in the best interest of the nation and its socio-economic development for now and the future.
She said there was growing demand and competition for the use of water in the areas of agriculture, hydro-power production, consumption and ecosystem sustainability.
“All these demands apart, God has not created any new rivers but the same quantity, even though populations keep growing, so we need to protect the rivers,” Mrs Dako said at the opening of a water resources management workshop at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.
She observed that water was also decreasing due to variability in the rainfall pattern, drought, environmental degradation, the draining of wetlands and pollution, which kills water bodies, and called for its use with maximum efficiency at all times.
Fresh water, she said, was a finite and vulnerable resource essential for sustaining life, development and the environment and called for a participatory approach involving users, planners and policy makers at all levels, including its management at the lowest appropriate level.
Speaking on the role of women in the use of water, Mrs Dako said women played a key role in the collection of water and, therefore, called for measures to make them aware of how to use water with care.
The Water Quality Specialist of the WRC, Mrs Adjoa Paintsil, said every human being should have enough clean water for drinking, appropriate sanitation and enough food at reasonable cost.
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