Asantehene plants trees to commence Jimi Watercourse Rehabilitation destroyed by galamsey

Aside from the rising turbidity levels, which has increased the cost of water treatment, the dam’s volume is decreasing, hence resulting in rationing of water to the communities.

The pollution threatens the Jimi River and the Jimi Dam downstream, which treats water for over 200,000 people in Obuasi and the Adansi area.

The Jimi project, led by the Ashanti Green Initiative under the leadership of Oheneba Nana Kwaku Duah, with Manhyia Palace providing vision and patronage, is piloting a six-step restoration model: backfilling pits, re-grading spoil heaps and terracing slopes, containing heavy metal contamination, installing drainage and erosion controls, restoring topsoil, and replanting with kenaf.