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Sanitation

IESS Seminar holds Ghana’s Sanitation Challenges and Possible Solutions

The Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS) as part of its guest seminar series organised a seminar on the topic “Solving Ghana’s sanitation challenges, what will it take?”

The seminar comprised a two-part presentation delivered by Mr. Harold Essau and Mrs. Lorrentta Roberts, both experts in water, hygiene and sanitation issues associated with UN-WASH project.

In his presentation, Mr. Essau mentioned that 22.9% of Ghanaians practise open defecation with the worse trends in the three northern regions