Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), Ghana

Building climate-resilience into basin water management

Research project Anthropogenic activities including illegal and uncontrolled mining and logging have seriously degraded the landscapes of many river basins in West Africa posing significant challenges to sustainable water resources management (WRM). Climate change (C ... Midterm report Over the past 3 years, the project has made significant progress in all the key research areas of climate, hydrology, ecosystem valuation, water system optimization and water governance. Comprehensive literature reviews on water gov ...
Period: 2019-03-1 to 2025-02-28 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana Partner institutions: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), Ghana Hydrological Services Department (HSD), Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana SIRCOOL Mineral Water Company Limited, Ghana Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Central Queensland University (CQU), Australia Project code: 18-13-GHA Total grant: 11,998,167 DKK
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Xenobiotics and heavy metals in Ghana

Research project The project addresses dispersal and effects of heavy metals and xenobiotic substances in the Ghanaian environment, primarily from rapidly increasing activities in informal economic sectors like artisanal mining (ASM) and management of waste electroni ...
Period: 2016-02-1 to 2022-09-15 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana Partner institutions: Water Research Institute (WRI), Ghana Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), Ghana Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Project code: 16-P03-GHA Total grant: 6,987,548 DKK
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