Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Monday, Prof. Amamoo-Otchere said the situation was not surprising because \u201cit\u2019s been going on for some time now and gradually it\u2019s going to get worse\u201d if nothing is about it.<\/p>\nHe professed that \u201cour own land use pattern has been such that the riparian corridor [the waterways and the vegetation around it] has constantly come under the type of land use we call slash and then the bush fallow, shifting cultivation, flop plain cultivation of sugar cane\u2026so the protective vegetation is gone which means, the pro-transpiration is high especially when we come to the dry season where the radiation of the sun is very intense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFormerly what will remain in the soil as soil moisture is reducing also \u00a0because of over harvesting through borehole and so on, \u00a0so the water bodies are constantly under attack.\u00a0 And now that we are going into a period where rainfall is not going to be constant it will mean that whatever that comes from time to time returns into the atmosphere and very little is left by way of balancing the soil\u2026so if that is the case it is not surprising that we have the drought,\u201d the geographer explained.<\/p>\n
Drying up of River Densu<\/strong><\/p>\nOn why River Densu is drying up, the geographer among other things attributed it to the increasing population in the area as well as the erection structures on waterways.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou and I somethings will want to building on the water ways not knowing that it is impeding the streams\u2026 and these are very common in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n
Way forward: Harvesting water<\/strong><\/p>\nHe admonished Ghanaians to harvest water which he said is the best alternative for now \u201cso that when it comes to the extreme of drought we can use that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n