Accra: A city built to drown – A practical blueprint for ending Accra’s urban floods

Residential plots in the city must be required to maintain permeable ground cover as opposed to the current wall-to-wall tiling or concrete happening at the moment.

The urban form of Accra makes the problem worse as the city is densely built with low porosity neighbourhoods, tightly packed buildings, narrow roads and open ground is relatively scarce.

The entire city has been engineered to flash flood as soon as the first drop of rain hits the concrete, long before it reaches a drain.