Professor Joshua Danso Owusu-Sekyere of the Department of Agriculture Engineering, University of Cape Coast (UCC) who made the call said criminalizing water pollution was a must in view of the high level of pollution of the country's water bodies of recent times. Citing the current pollution of rivers such as the Offin, Tano, Ankobra and others to indicate the enormity of water pollution in the country, he warned of a possible “third World War” over water if urgent steps were not taken to address the situation. Prof Owusu-Sekyere, whose research focused on water use and crop production, noted that water scarcity had threatened and continue to threaten food security and therefore, promoting modern agricultural irrigation technologies was an important measure against water scarcity. Additionally, Prof Owusu-Sekyere called for a national drive to develop a rainwater harvesting system where each household would be required to build a rainwater harvesting system to mitigate rainwater loses in the country. Prof Owusu-Sekyere has conducted extensive research into deficit irrigation, water saving irrigation, crop water requirement under a changing climate and water control for crop production.

Source: GhanaWeb April 05, 2019 04:30 UTC