{"id":55641,"date":"2013-03-31T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T11:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/03\/us150m-from-world-bank-to-solve-accras-water-crisis\/"},"modified":"2013-03-31T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T11:45:43","slug":"us150m-from-world-bank-to-solve-accras-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/03\/31\/us150m-from-world-bank-to-solve-accras-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"US$150m from World Bank to solve Accra&#8217;s water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Sunday, 31 March 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> radioxyzonline.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/03\/c5be44642516.jpg\" alt=\"Water Tap\" title=\"Water Tap\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c3\">The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will benefit from a US$150 million grant from the World Bank toward helping improve Ghana\u2019s water supply and sanitation services, particularly in the national capital.<\/p>\n<p>City authorities are expected to use the grant to solve most of the problems bedeviling water and sanitation services in Accra. The package forms part of the World body\u2019s commitment toward the improvement of urban areas and cities.<\/p>\n<p>Country Director Yusupha Crookes said the World Bank will support the implementation of the national urban development policy and action plan launched by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the next few weeks&#8230;we plan and we hope to deliver US$150 million programme of support to the Accra Metropolitan area to help to address, in a small, but I hope, a very impactful and significant way, the very pressing challenges in delivering sanitation and water services\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is currently rationing water nationwide due to an acute shortfall in production.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that such grants from the World Bank will go a long way toward mitigating the impact of the shortfall in production.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Sunday, 31 March 2013 Source: radioxyzonline.com The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will benefit from a US$150 million grant from the World Bank toward helping improve Ghana\u2019s water supply and sanitation services, particularly in the national capital.City authorities are expected to use the grant to solve most of the problems bedeviling water and sanitation services in Accra. The package forms part of the World body\u2019s commitment toward the improvement of urban areas and cities.Country Director Yusupha Crookes said the World Bank will support the implementation of the national urban development policy and action plan launched by the government.\u201cIn the next few weeks&#8230;we plan and we hope to deliver US$150 million programme of support to the Accra Metropolitan area to help to address, in a small, but I hope, a very impactful and significant way, the very pressing challenges in delivering sanitation and water services\u201d.Ghana is currently rationing water nationwide due to an acute shortfall in production.It is expected that such grants from the World Bank will go a long way toward mitigating the impact of the shortfall in production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}