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 ...

Accra, June 25, GNA – A three-day workshop to address environmental and social concerns in the Volta River Basin has opened in Accra. The workshop is in relation to the Reversing Ecosystem and ...

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 ...

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.

The Volta Basin with its transboundary river, has become of increasing importance in supporting development in the six riparian countries in West Africa. The Volta basin, with is the ninth largest ...

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 ...

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 ...