| Title | Grushie Zongo community report : cost of water and sanitation in Grushie Zongo in East Gonja District, Ghana |
| Publication Type | Progress Report |
| Year of Publication | 2012 |
| Authors | Donkor-Badu, B, Appiah-Effah, E, Nyarko, KB, Dwumfour-Asare, B, Moriarty, PB, McIntyre, P, Obuobisa-Darko, A, V. Otum, N, Dickinson, N, Adjei, KA |
| Secondary Title | WASHCost Ghana community report |
| Pagination | 8 p.; 3 tab.; 2 fig.; 1 map |
| Date Published | 2012-01-01 |
| Publisher | WASHCost team, Accra and Kumasi, Ghana |
| Place Published | Accra, Ghana |
| Publication Language | English |
| Keywords | access to water, ghana northern region, open defecation, statistics, WASHCost, water consumption, water distribution, water supply |
| Abstract | This community has to travel a long distance to access water. They only use formal water sources when informal ones are not available. Community members’ inability or unwillingness to pay for water use from the formal sources threatens their sustainability. The community has no toilet facilities and everybody practises open defecation. WASHCost is undertaking action research focusing on quantifying the cost of providing sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) in rural and peri-urban areas in Ghana. This community report presents findings of research carried out in the community of Grushie Zongo in East Gonja District of the Northern Region of Ghana. The WASHCost team visited the Grushie Zongo community in September 2009 to collect data on |
| Custom 1 | 824 |
