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Ghana Water had requested a 400% tariff increase to fully cover costs, but the regulator had pared down the request substantially, citing concerns about affordability. [4] Between 1990 and 1997, the average water tariff in Ghana's urban areas had been in the range of US$0.10 to US$0.15 per m³.
IIMI began developing new fields of research, on topics such as open and closed basins, water accounting, multiple-use systems, basin institutions, remote sensing analysis and environmental flows. [5] In 1998, its name changed to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), reflecting this new wider approach.
A survey of the water schemes in the early 1980s showed over 90% of taps were functioning, but now (2011) only 42.4% are functioning: in the Northern Region, 74% of 2305 taps from gravity-fed piped water schemes are non-functional; in the Central (1,465 taps) and Southern Regions (10,215 taps), 55% of the taps from piped water systems are non ...
The genesis of the council however, dates back to the erstwhile National Research Council (NRC), which was established by the government [1] in August 1958 to organize and coordinate scientific research in Ghana. In 1963, the NRC merged with the former Ghana Academy of Sciences, a statutory learned society.
Common variants of qanat in English include kanat, khanat, kunut, kona, konait, ghanat, ghundat. [3]Qanāh (قناة) is an Arabic word that means "channel". [4] In Persian, the words for "qanat" are kārīz (or kārēz; كاريز) and is derived from earlier word kāhrēz (كاهریز).
University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD-Ghana) is a newly established University at Trom-Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region Ghana. [3] The institution was established by the Government of Ghana (GoG) through the Ministry of Education so that there will be an equitable "access for all" in Ghana.
He returned to Ghana to work at the University of Ghana Business School where he became the head of the Department of Organisation and Human Resource Management [1] and later Associate Professor. [2] He has served as an external examiner at the Makarere University in Uganda and in South Africa at Rhodes University , University of Pretoria and ...
The following year, another international collaboration in learning and research came into fruition when an agreement was reached between the Department of Human Settlements; the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; and the Danish Ministry of ...