{"id":3405,"date":"2019-06-27T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"health-alert-ankobra-basin-contaminated-with-fecal-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/27\/health-alert-ankobra-basin-contaminated-with-fecal-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Alert! \u2026 Ankobra Basin contaminated with fecal matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY CLEMENT\nADZEI BOYE, TAKORADI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water bodies within the\nAnkobra Basin of the Western Region of Ghana are highly contaminated with\nfaecal matter due to open defecation and other human activities.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The inhabitants of communities\nalong the Ankobra Basin use the water that was tested and said to contain high\nrate of faecal matter, for cooking, washing, bathing and swimming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A study carried out by\nConservation Foundation (CF), a non-governmental organization (NGO), and Water\nResources Commission (WRC) \u2013 Ankobra Basin Office, to assess the quality of\nwater in 28 communities within the basin, has revealed this health threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The affected communities,\nmostly in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem, Prestea Huni-Valley, Wassa Amenfi East, Wassa East\ndistricts, include Dadwen, Kofikrom, Domeabra, Tarkwa Banso, New Techiman,\nKyekyewere, Essaman Kakraba, Simpa, Bonsa, Ankwawso, Bepo and Mile Ten and\nHalf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh\/health-alert-%ef%bb%bf-ankobra-basin-contaminated-with-faecal-matter\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY CLEMENT ADZEI BOYE, TAKORADI Water bodies within the Ankobra Basin of the Western Region of Ghana are highly contaminated with faecal matter due to open defecation and other human&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}