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24th August, 2011
Make Rainwater Harvesting Facilities In Public/Commercial Buildings A Law
The Executive Secretary of the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS), Ben Arthur, has suggested a law instead of a policy to make it obligatory for rainwater harvesting facilities to be incorporated in public and commercial buildings.
That he said would make it legally binding for people to incorporate rain water harvesting facilities in their buildings.
The Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing (MWRWH) last week said his outfit was developing a national rainwater harvesting policy, to make it mandatory for rainwater harvesting facilities to be incorporated in public and commercial buildings.
Sharing his perspective on the national rainwater harvesting policy with the Times at the weekend, Mr Arthur explained that a law would make it compulsory for people to include rainwater harvesting facilities in their buildings.
“With a law backing rainwater harvesting, the government or stakeholders can go to court if people are not going by it,” he stated.
The Executive Secretary explained that rain water harvesting currently was captured in the National Water Policy and programme action by of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency, saying what was left were resources to implement the policy.
Mr Arthur earlier this year told the Times that since the first President of Ghana, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, started a project that incorporated rainwater harvesting facilities to some public buildings in Tarkwa in the Western Region, successive governments had done little to sustain the policy.
Water experts say rainwater harvesting could help address the perennial water problem some water stressed communities in the country, continued to face.
Mr. Arthur said COMNIWAS was assisting some schools in the country to construct rainwater harvesting facilities to enable them store water for use, pointing out that most of the schools did not have access to potable water and that compelled students to spend hours looking around for water instead of studying.
“With the rainwater harvesting facilities the schools can harvest their own water for use,” he said.
That he said would make it legally binding for people to incorporate rain water harvesting facilities in their buildings.
The Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing (MWRWH) last week said his outfit was developing a national rainwater harvesting policy, to make it mandatory for rainwater harvesting facilities to be incorporated in public and commercial buildings.
Sharing his perspective on the national rainwater harvesting policy with the Times at the weekend, Mr Arthur explained that a law would make it compulsory for people to include rainwater harvesting facilities in their buildings.
“With a law backing rainwater harvesting, the government or stakeholders can go to court if people are not going by it,” he stated.
The Executive Secretary explained that rain water harvesting currently was captured in the National Water Policy and programme action by of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency, saying what was left were resources to implement the policy.
Mr Arthur earlier this year told the Times that since the first President of Ghana, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, started a project that incorporated rainwater harvesting facilities to some public buildings in Tarkwa in the Western Region, successive governments had done little to sustain the policy.
Water experts say rainwater harvesting could help address the perennial water problem some water stressed communities in the country, continued to face.
Mr. Arthur said COMNIWAS was assisting some schools in the country to construct rainwater harvesting facilities to enable them store water for use, pointing out that most of the schools did not have access to potable water and that compelled students to spend hours looking around for water instead of studying.
“With the rainwater harvesting facilities the schools can harvest their own water for use,” he said.
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