There are fears Ghana will not achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on sanitation with only 20 percent of the country’s population said to be without toilets. Problems such as lack of ...

Editor’s note: Andy is Deputy CEO of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and Manager of WSUP Enterprises, a new specialist business unit that builds, strengthens and expands clean water and ...

Mr Julius Debrah, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Wednesday expressed exasperation about the rather slow improvement in the access to toilets by citizens across the country. He ...

There are still 2.4 billion people without access to toilets, risking their health and safety on a daily basis. Costs, culture, and a lack of awareness of the dangers of unsanitary practices pose ...

President John Dramani Mahama's declaration that "it is unacceptable that in 2025, open defecation persists in parts of Ghana" is a stark reminder of one of the country’s most persistent public health ...

A 20-seater Jubilee toilet facility, worth thousands of Ghana Cedis, has been abandoned to the detriment of pupils of the Abesim Presby Primary 'A' School, and the entire community at large. The ...

Three out of four households in Ghana, representing 74 per cent, do not have exclusive use of an improved toilet, the Statistical Service has said. In a statement to commemorate the World Toilet Day, ...

Safe Water Network Ghana (SWN) has joined the global community to commemorate World Toilet Day 2025, calling for renewed commitment to expand access to safe toilets and improve sanitation nationwide.

Poor sanitation is costing Ghana $290 million each year or about 1.6 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), research has shown. A survey by the Environmental Health and Sanitation Directorate ...

A professor of civil engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has stressed the need for the government to design and implement a national programme on universal ...