Ghana: Why Poor Urban Planning not Sanitation Cause of Accra's Flooding

17 February 2020

The rains have become a living fabric of Accra's urbanization challenges. The heavy downpours wash Accra's streets clean leaving behind only plant debris. The water makes its way into an already overloaded drainage system only to be gurgled back out.

This is a continuing cycle of mother nature announcing the coming of the rainy season. The June 3rd disaster restated an open secret that Accra was ill-prepared to contain such large amounts rain resulting in a disaster scale never seen before in the last decade.

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