AllAfrica News: Water and Sanitation

[Foroyaa] The public health authorities of The Gambia are supposed to protect the citizens from preventable epidemics such as cholera. Sanitation is a prerequisite to the prevention of epidemics.

[GroundUp] Poor management has caused frequent, prolonged water outages and left many families dependent on water tankers

[Ghanaian Times] The Manklalo of the Mepe Traditional Area, Togbe Korsi Nego VI, has appealed to the government and President John Dramani Mahama to urgently compensate and resettle victims of the Akosombo and Kpong dams' spillage.

[Ghanaian Times] The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in the Upper East Region has urged farmers along the White Volta River and residents of flood-prone communities to relocate to safer areas ahead of the anticipated spillage of Burkina Faso's Bagre Dam.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The Ministry of Water and Energy has signed a contract worth over 933.6 million Birr with Bigeta Business PLC for a major water well drilling and construction project.