These communities rely on the Pra for their drinking water and fishing. A gang of small-scale miners have been operating along the course of the River and thereby polluting it.

President of the Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners says their mining activities carried out at Twifo-Praso District in the Central Region did not pollute River Pra.

The Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr. Kwaku Agyemang Mensah has advised Chiefs living along the Pra river to invoke curses on illegal miners (galamsey) who are bent on polluting ...