The ambitious nature of the SDG?s continually pose the call for all to get involved in our bid as a global community in attaining all targets.

On the 7th of July 2017, my organisation alliance for environmental intervention in collaboration with Tunza eco generation and the VSO alumni visited the Abavana junior high school in Accra for an SDG awareness creation program which centred on the sixth sustainable development goal (clean water and sanitation).

We began by introducing the students to all the sustainable development goals, their input and their relevance to global development and integration. After this general introduction, the students were grouped into four (4) focus groups to discuss ??clean water and sanitation??.

At the end of the discussion students voluntarily represented their groups to make a presentation on their findings and the following were the issues brought up

*Illegal mining was implicated as one menace destroying our water bodies.

*Negligence on the part of the citizenry people seem to blame the government for even issues that arise in their homes.

*The use of water bodies and their surroundings as places of convenience.

*Inadequate toilet facilities in most Ghanaian homes

*Indiscriminate littering of our communities/homes causing chocked gutters and smelly environments.

The above were among a host of challenges identified by these students and to address these, they suggested the following solutions which I find very compelling and relevant

**Ghana?s environmental laws are required to be enforced to their maximum impact (e.g. It is required of every land lord to build a toilet facility in their home).

**Clamp down on illegal mining totally.

**The citizenry must be encouraged to be more concerned about our water and the sanitation of our environment.

***we had photoshoots and distribution of educational materials from tunza eco generation.