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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Energy in Ghana, Environment ministers of Ghana, Environmental organizations based in Ghana, Fauna of Ghana, Flora of Ghana, Water supply and sanitation in Ghana, Tamarind, Imperata cylindrica, Python regius, Acacia nilotica, Annona senegalensis, West African Gas Pipeline, Rural Education and Development Programme, Adansonia digitata, Aaron Mike Oquaye, Water privatization in Ghana, Balanites aegyptiaca, Miss Waldron's Red Colobus, Avicennia germinans, Sherry Ayitey, Dracaena fragrans, Red River Hog, Bombax buonopozense, Lonchocarpus laxiflorus, Bitis gabonica rhinoceros, Cletus Avoka, Bayad, Heterobranchus, Utricularia stellaris, Utricularia arenaria, Oil reserves in Ghana, Utricularia inflexa, Utricularia striatula, Utricularia tortilis, Eragrostis amabilis, Utricularia reflexa, Ghana Innovation Marketplace, Utricularia firmula, Aeschynomene elaphroxylon, Greater Cane Rat, Tetrapleura tetraptera, Utricularia foveolata, Canscora diffusa, Ampelocissus gracilipes, Eastern Guinean forests, Triplochiton scleroxylon, Garcinia epunctata, Gilbertiodendron splendidum, Ghana Mole Rat, Hymenostegia gracilipes, Cola umbratilis, Hymenostegia aubrevillei, Cola boxiana, Garcinia afzelii, Talbotiella gentii, Hunteria ghanensis, Dalbergia setifera, Zanthoxylum chevalieri, Amorphoscelis elegans. Excerpt: The water supply and sanitation sector in Ghana faces severe problems, partly due to a neglect of the sector until the 1990s. Tariffs were kept at a low level which was far from reflecting the real cost of the service. Economic efficiency still remains below the regional average, resulting in a lack of financial resources to maintain and extend the infrastructure. Since 1994, the sector has been gradually modernized through the creation of an autonomous regulatory agency, introduction of private sector participation, and decentrali...