Wealth Over Water
Wealth Over Water is a data-driven visual investigation into Ghana’s illegal mining crisis, exploring how galamsey threatens water resources, forests and cocoa production. Drawing on environmental data, mining statistics and reporting on political influence and enforcement failures, the project examines the economic incentives and governance failures sustaining illegal mining—and the human and environmental costs of a system that continues to thrive.
Discussing Wealth over Water on Joy News "Beyond the Numbers" show
I was invited as a guest on JoyNews’ Beyond the Numbers to discuss Ghana’s illegal mining crisis (galamsey) and its economic and environmental implications. I presented data-driven insights on the issue, translating complex statistics and research into accessible analysis for a national television audience.
Fatah Abass
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