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RAINFALL: A BLESSING OR CURSE IN GHANA? 1

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Flooding which is a standard in the country during each blustery season is lopsidedly obliterating building structures, further deteriorating the monetary status, especially for individuals who live in lower regions and casual repayments.

With regards to Ghana, aside from the obliteration of properties and monetary misfortunes because of flooding, individuals living in flood-inclined regions are at a higher gamble of contracting sicknesses like cholera, jungle fever, hepatitis E among others. As ranchers in certain pieces of the nation are intensely petitioning God for higher measures of precipitation to help efficiency, larger part of Ghanaians are against weighty rainfalls as it put their lives in harm's way.

 

As per the Overall Green Flood caution of the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, around 200 individuals were dislodged between the second and ninth of April, 2022 in Ghana because of flooding. An update from the Ghana flood list expressed that 5 individuals lost their lives in flooding in the North East Region of Ghana throughout the course of recent days. Likewise as per media reports, 3 fatalities happened in the Chereponi locale on 28 August 2022, two individuals kicked the bucket endeavoring to cross an enlarged stream in the Bunkpurugu Nakpanduri region on 26 August 2022.

 

It was additionally recorded that, harming floods struck Ghana 's Upper West Region after late weighty precipitation. Debacle specialists said more than 1,605 individuals were impacted and north of 100 homes annihilated. Moreover, flooding made serious harm streets and extensions in the district, affecting vocations and leaving a few networks cut off. In Accra, there are uncountable occasions of flooding occasions after each precipitation this year. Around 10 to 15mins of each and every precipitation in Accra brings about flooding seriously endangering the existences of individuals.

 

The asking question at the forefront of everybody's thoughts presently is; is precipitation now a revile or a gift in Ghana? I pass on the solution to your perspectives.

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