NAIMOS launches “Operation Water Shield” to protect river bodies from illegal mining

The statement said: “Operation Water Shield will pursue six principal objectives: protect strategic river source areas, deny illegal miners access to riverbanks and waterways, dismantle mining logistics networks, disrupt the criminal and financial structures that support illegal mining.13, GNA – The National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) has launched the “Operation Water Shield,” a sustained national enforcement campaign to protect Ghana’s major rivers, watersheds, and other critical water resources from the destructive effects of illegal mining.” The goal was to substantially degrade and contain illegal mining within protected watersheds, restrict the movement of heavy equipment into critical river systems, achieve sustained improvement in water quality, disrupt the networks financing illegal mining, and restore effective control over affected river basins, it added.