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Ghana and Burkina Faso Confer on
Common Use of Volta Basin Water
Tenkodogo (Burkina Faso), June 2, GNA - Delegates from Ghana
and Burkina Faso on Wednesday began what is officially
referred to as the Third Joint Forum on the White Volta
Basin at Tenkodogo near Ouagadougou.
It is a follow-up on the Second Joint Consultative Forum
held in Bolgatanga on January 29 and 30, 2007 and has as its
central objective the adoption of statutory regulations that
would make the Trans-boundary Committee for the Management
of the water resources of the White Volta Basin become
operational.
The three-day conference, which is being organized by the
Ouagadougou-based Project for Improving of Water Governance
of the Volta Basin (PAGEV), also aims at building the
capacity of participants on the concept of Integrated Water
Resource Management and other strategies that would enhance
conflict prevention and resolution.
Also at the heart of the forum's deliberations, particularly
for the Ghana side, was the issue of ascertaining the inflow
of water both in terms of quality and quantity from Burkina
Faso to Ghana.
In attendance are over 80 participants from the two
neighbouring countries, 30 of whom make up the Ghana
delegation headed by the Upper East Regional Minister, Mr.
Boniface Gambila.
Earlier in a welcome address, the Haut-Commissaire of
Boulgou Province, Mr. Pierre Bicaba, underscored the
importance of water to the two neighbouring countries and
called on participants at the forum to focus on strategies
that would make water resources of the Volta Basin a factor
that would further strengthen the existing bonds of
co-operation between Ghana and Burkina Faso.
GNA
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