About 60 per cent of Ghana’s water bodies are polluted, a senior scientist at the CSIR-Water Research Institute (CSIR-WRI), Dr Franco Enobrenaco, has warned. Toward Sustainable Remediation of Polluted Water Bodies,”* he cautioned that Ghana could eventually be forced to import water if urgent measures were not taken to protect its water resources. “If we have 100% and 60% of our water bodies polluted, the rest is 40%... We are going to import water. He said efforts to restore polluted water bodies would remain ineffective if the sources of pollution were not addressed. According to him, polluted water poses serious risks to public health, agriculture, industry and energy generation, while treating contaminated water also comes at a significant economic cost.