Ghana: Water

(asked on 12th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the population in (a) rural and (b) urban areas of Ghana who have immediate access to piped water systems.


Answered by
Andrew Mitchell Portrait
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
This question was answered on 19th December 2022

WaterAid is an active partner in delivering outcomes for vulnerable people under the Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition (HBCC). Between April 2020 and October 2021, WaterAid in Ghana helped deliver 25,000 bars of soap and 3,000 hygiene kits; trained 177 Community Health Workers in Covid-19 prevention and to promote handwashing; and installed 95 handwashing in health care facilities. The HBCC partners reported that between 57 per cent and 98 per cent of the targeted population in 14 countries were practicing handwashing with soap at five critical times to help prevent illness after the intervention.

Ghana conducted a population and housing census in 2021 - for which the UK's Office of National Statistics provided technical support. As of 2021, 32 per cent of Ghana's population is using piped water. Further progress is still needed to close the gap between rural and urban populations, respectively at 29 per cent and 34 per cent.

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