A review of Ghana’s water resource management and the future prospect

Cogent Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Owusu, Phebe Asantewaa ^a   Asumadu Sarkodie, Samuel ^a   Ameyo, Polycarp ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Basins; Climate change; Environmental sustainability engineering; Ghana; Groundwater; Illegal mining; Renewable energy; Water resources management; Water weeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975822561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23311916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2016.1164275     Document Type: Review

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