A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisation (NGO) dedicated to the preservation of the environment, especially water bodies in the Akuapem South Municipality, Ampa Resource Foundation, has organised a day’s seminar at Nsawam to educate the people in the town on sound environmental practices to maintain the purity of the Densu River.
The Densu Basin is a large area of communities, villages and hamlets drained by the Densu River which is the main source of drinking water for the inhabitants.
The participants numbering 40 included traditional rulers, assembly members, water and sanitation workers, especially from Zoomlion, a private waste management company and others from the Akuapem North Municipal Assembly.
They were taken through the rudiments of safe environmental practices by Mr Godwin Bansah, a Water and Sanitation Consultant and Mr Ronald Abrahams, an officer of the Densu Basin Water Resources Commission.
They advised the participants to impart the knowledge they had acquired to the people in the various communities in the Densu Basin.
Welcoming the participants, the Executive Director of Ampa Resource Foundation, Mr Emmanuel Minta Kwaafo, said his organisation was dialoguing with the communities in Akuapem North District and Akuapem South Municipality as well as allied agencies to make the Densu River pure.
Mr Kwaafo said Zoomlion and the Akuapem South Municipal Assembly were doing their best to clear the area of filth.
He, however, stated that increase in population in the municipality had compounded the situation, and for that reason, there was the need for the people to be properly educated on sound environmental practices which his outfit would champion.
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