Workshop for water security and governance opens
A three-day workshop for water security and governance opened in Accra on Friday with a call on participants to make their recommendations user-friendly to avoid it being left on shelves to gather dust.
A paper published today, November 24, 2011 by the International Institute for Environment and Development, warns that African governments are signing away water rights for decades, with insufficient regard for how this will affect millions of local users, including fishing, farming and pastoralist communities.