The Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has stated that the activities of illegal miners in river bodies continue to be a major challenge to the distribution of safe water in the country.
She said the phenomenon, in addition to other human activities, has led to a deficit in water production and poor water quality, which is affecting government’s efforts to embark on certain projects to improve water supply.
Speaking at a Ministry of Information press briefing on Monday, Mrs. Cecilia Dapaah observed that illegal miners dump solid and liquid wastes into rivers, thereby blocking machines that pump water.
In Authority of this Bohyeba Afriyie interviewed the National President of Concerned Small Scale Miners Association Michael kojo Peprah on Plan B Fm’s Ebanoosen and he stated that illegal miners are not the only problems of the mining sector.
Explaining this he said that the big licensed mining companies in Ghana Cause more harm to the Nature of the Environment than illegal miners and he Sighted Apiate Explosions as an Example to what the big Companies Do to our society with their chemicals.
He went Ahead to defend that All these boils down to lack of supervision and the minister in his best wisdom should rather tackle this from Grass root.
He concluded that the problems facing the mining sector can not be solved with Emotions.
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