As Ghana struggles with heavily galamsey– polluted rivers across the country, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Prof. Richard Kwasi Amankwah, says UMaT has developed a technology to clear all illegal mining-polluted river bodies in the country.
The Vice Chancellor disclosed this at the 17th Congregation Ceremony of UMaT at Tarkwa where 2,496 students graduated at various levels.
He explained that the Minerals Engineering Department of UMaT developed the technology and all they need is for government to give the university the chance to zoom into action to clean the river bodies from the high turbidity.
“We have this technology where some Geomatic Engineers led by Prof. Cynthia Boye, use satelite imagery to capture the quality of water in our rivers and they have been able to check the quality of water of the rivers in many of the small-scale mining communities.
“Coupled to that, in the Minerals Engineering Department, they are taking samples from these rivers and calculating how they can purify it. I want to put it on record that UMAT has the technology and the know-how to clear all the polluted rivers in Ghana if given the opportunity,” he stated.
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