This paper uses a political ecology approach to examine the institutional drivers of watershed depletion and contamination in the Offinso North District, Ashanti region of Ghana. Perennial streams supply water to 77% of the largely rural population who lack access to piped water or boreholes....

Sustainable is defined as able to continue over a period of time; or causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long time. The key to sustainability would therefore appear to be to identify what enables a water supply to remain operational over a long...