The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun an emergency effort to clean up Ghana's heavily polluted water bodies, citing the impact of illegal mining as a major crisis.
The agency says it has already begun collecting water samples and is reviewing proposals from companies to undertake the clean-up and rehabilitation process.
According to EPA Chief Executive Officer, Professor Nana Ama Brown Klutse, the initiative has the full backing of the President and is expected to cost billions of cedis. "We see this as an emergency situation to clean up our water bodies, which have been polluted by galamsey.
The EPA is going to clean up our water bodies.
