Alhassan Musah Timtooni, the speaker of the Northern Region Youth Parliament, led the two youth groups and presented the policy document to the Regional Minister on behalf of youth in northern Ghana.
Tamale Water Fund (TWF) to tackle perennial water shortages in Tamale
By Divine Adongo
Regional Economic Planning Officer, NRCC, Alhaji Abukari Inusah
As we all know, water is a scarce resource. It is even predicted that by 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas, a situation that has a very high potential of erupting extreme poverty across the world.
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) (2017/18) indicates that access to basic drinking water in the Northern Region stands at 50%, nonetheless, there is increasing demand by households, agriculture and industry, and the impacts of climate change have also contributed to putting water under extreme threat.