Expert Challenges EPA River Cleanup: Stop the Mining First, Then Treat the Water

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/expert-challenges-epa-river-cleanup-stop-the-mining-first-then-treat-the-water/A natural resource governance expert has questioned the logic of spending $200,000 on a river cleanup technology while illegal mining operations responsible for the pollution continue to run unabated, describing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Ionic Nano Copper intervention as a premature response to a problem that has not yet been contained at its source. […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/expert-challenges-epa-river-cleanup-stop-the-mining-first-then-treat-the-water/


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