When Infrastructure Saves Lives: Can Accra learn from Toronto before the next flood?
As Ghana mourns the lives and properties lost in Accra's recent floods, one question demands urgent national attention: Can better infrastructure prevent the next disaster?
Government certainly has a central role to play by investing in modern drainage systems, improving waste collection, enforcing environmental laws, and supporting sustainable urban planning.
According to the City of Toronto, the municipality maintains hundreds of thousands of stormwater catch basins together with an extensive storm sewer network designed to collect rainwater and snowmelt and safely channel it away from neighbourhoods, roads, businesses, and public infrastructure.
