WATER POLLUTION IN ACCRA AT ITS PEAK!

VIDEO: http://youtu.be/MJuJnTHHot4

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers and groundwater). Water pollution occurs when pollutants are discharged directly or indirectly into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds.

Water pollution affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water. In almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but also to the natural biological communities. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution)

On the 27 Mar, 2013, a news article on edition.myjoyonline.com › Local News‎ revealed that government policies have failed to curb the blatant pollution of Ghana’s water bodies and sources. They warned that Ghana may face severe water crisis in 2025 if nothing is done about the problem. Meanwhile, the Water Resources Commission says it is collaborating with the security services to enforce the law prohibiting the pollution of water bodies in all forms.

There is this large gutter running across the Ring Road in the middle of Accra not too far from the busy centre of Kwame Nkrumah Circle with a constant flow of dark polluted water. The flow which is said to be a sub-stream of a river-body is piled with large chunks of plastic waste, home waste elements, byproducts from neighbouring structures and debris immensely, emitting a highly choking odour.

Almost every few minutes find surrounding slum settlers enjoying the breezy atmosphere as they expose their rear ends to defecate directly into the waters right under the bridge opposite the Total Filling Station next to IPMC Computer Institute. They come in turns and sometimes in their numbers posing the entire environment to risks of diseases and pollution.

We plead to the EPA and other governmental bodies to see to this situation immediately to secure the health safety of residents in the surrounding areas.