Govt urged to protect White Volta for water security, livelihoods

Event Organised by the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in collaboration with the Northern Regional Coordinating Council (NRCC), the Water Resources Commission (WRC) and the Minerals Commission, the second Regional Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Sustainable Sand Mining was on the theme "Protecting the White Volta River for Water Security and Sustainable Livelihoods”.

Participants in a stakeholder forum in Tamale have called for urgent and coordinated action to regulate sand mining and other human activities that threaten the White Volta River, to safeguard water security and sustainable livelihoods in the Greater Tamale area.

The forum provided a platform for stakeholders to review and validate a Draft Integrated Regulatory Framework on Sustainable Sand Mining developed by the Technical Working Group on Sustainable Sand Mining to guide environmentally sustainable and community-based sand mining within the Nawuni sub-catchment and the wider White Volta River Basin.