The Volta River Basin encompasses 402,000 square kilometers. Most of this area is in Ghana and Burkina Faso, with the remainder in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Togo.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New water management strategies will be needed to ensure sufficient water supplies in West Africa’s Volta River Basin, a region likely to be hard hit by ...

A new report highlighting the damaging effects of climate change on West Africa’s Volta River basin was released at the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week in Accra, Ghana. The study was ...

The Volta River Authority, the state agency that manages ... the floods were caused by heavy rains in the Volta catchment basin. Climate change and global warming, he explained, were responsible ...

He said this corridor, which was centred on the Volta Lake and the Volta Basin, would become a national ... developed in coordination with the Volta River Authority and the private sector.

Communities along the Volta River Basin in Ghana and Burkina Faso are planting trees along the banks of the river to discourage farming activities and prevent siltation, Mr Kwame Odame-Ababio ...

Ghana will host the Volta River Basin Authority (VBA) Ministerial Conference from May 6th to 10th, aimed at deepening the resolve for the sustainable management of the basin for the common good of ...

ACCRA, GHANA (19 July, 2013)—A new study released today finds that so much water may be lost in the Volta River Basin due to climate change that planned hydroelectric projects to boost energy ...