{"id":333553,"date":"2017-07-03T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=333553"},"modified":"2017-07-03T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T09:00:41","slug":"govt-to-develop-3year-strategic-plan-for-water-sanitation-adda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=333553","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to develop -3year strategic plan for water, sanitation \u2013 Adda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Kofi Adda, Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, has disclosed that Government will in the coming days develop a three-year strategic plan for the water and sanitation sector.<\/p>\n<p>This, he assured, would help Ghana effectively manage waste, and also go a long way to improve the water situation.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of collection, management, and disposal of solid waste, continues to be a challenge for several cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-333557\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"6\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The contamination of water bodies; leading to the spread of water-borne diseases, is also another headache for government.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-333554\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Adda, who was speaking at the opening of the 2017 Sector Strategic Stakeholders workshop of the Sanitation and Water Resources Ministry, also disclosed that as part of government&#8217;s plans to manage waste effectively; it will build two waste management plants in all ten regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-333558\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Kofi Adda, Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, has disclosed that Government will in the coming days develop a three-year strategic plan for the water and sanitation sector. This, he assured, would help Ghana effectively manage waste, and also go a long way to improve the water situation. The issue of collection, management, and disposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[829,391,1772,3257],"class_list":["post-333553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-nes","tag-kofi-adda","tag-sanitation","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}