{"id":1242525,"date":"2022-11-03T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/citi-tv-roundtable-discussion-on-galamsey-and-its-threat-to-ghanas-water-security-comes-off-today\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T06:32:10","slug":"citi-tv-roundtable-discussion-on-galamsey-and-its-threat-to-ghanas-water-security-comes-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/citi-tv-roundtable-discussion-on-galamsey-and-its-threat-to-ghanas-water-security-comes-off-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Citi TV roundtable discussion on galamsey and its threat to Ghana&#8217;s water security comes off today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Citi TV will today, Thursday, November 3, 2022, hold a roundtable discussion on illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion will touch on the potential effects of galamsey on water bodies, as well as measures to restore these water bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The Citi Galamsey Dialogue dubbed \u201cGalamsey and Ghana\u2019s Water Security\u201d aims at bringing together important stakeholders in the water sector to deliberate on the state of Ghana\u2019s water resources and examine the effects of illegal mining on Ghana\u2019s water security.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-891194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ROUNDTABLE-TV-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2403\" height=\"1516\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The discussion will feature the Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Dr. Clifford Braimah;\u00a0 Moses Paintsil, the Eastern Regional Water Quality Assurance Manager of GWCL; Professor Chris Gordon, an Environmental Toxicologist; Dr. Bob Alfa, Director of Planning at the Water Resources Commission; and Dr. Adwoa Yirenkyi Fianko, a Senior Lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).<\/p>\n<p>It will be moderated by Citi TV\u2019s Vivian Kai Lokko.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"E5Nul6ksfbg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Western Region: GWCL laments dire situation as galamsey activities pollute\u00a0River\u00a0Pra\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E5Nul6ksfbg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The event will be broadcast live on\u00a0<strong>Citi FM<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Citi TV\u00a0<\/strong>at 10:30 am.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s fight against illegal mining seems to have hit a snag after some initial successes following the Citi FM\/Citi TV-led campaign in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The upsurge in activities of illegal miners poses threats on many levels to the country, among which national security and water security are the most prominent.<\/p>\n<p>The pollution of water bodies, which provide the raw water for the production of potable water for the population, is particularly concerning as the threat seems to be escalating daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"oIbcgWrW1yY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fight against illegal mining: Pollution of River Pra affecting GWCL operations in Western Region\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIbcgWrW1yY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi TV will today, Thursday, November 3, 2022, hold a roundtable discussion on illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. The discussion will touch on the potential effects of galamsey on water bodies, as well as measures to restore these water bodies. The Citi Galamsey Dialogue dubbed \u201cGalamsey and Ghana\u2019s Water Security\u201d aims at bringing together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}