Wetlands are zones of land where water covers the dirt – all year or exactly at specific circumstances of the year. Wetlands can either be natural or artificial and the water inside a wetland might be static or streaming, crisp, salty or saline. There are even underground wetlands.

Wetlands are a basic piece of our regular habitat. They shield our shores from wave activity, decrease the effects of surges, assimilate toxins and enhance water quality. They give natural surroundings to creatures and plants and numerous contain a wide assorted variety of life, supporting plants and creatures that are discovered no place else.

Wetlands give an essential scope of ecological, social and financial administrations. Numerous wetlands are zones of extraordinary characteristic excellence and numerous are imperative to Native individuals.

Wetlands are the fundamental connection among land and water.

Wetlands go about as normal surge insurance as they trap at that point gradually discharge surface water after some time. This capacity to store water in the midst of expanded precipitation avoids flooding. Depleting wetlands for building advancement and farmlands has expelled a considerable lot of these common guards, leaving encompassing territories helpless against expanded flooding.

Wetlands likewise give employments to neighborhood groups and biodiversity. People who live close to such water bodies, angle in it for their protein necessity and for a few, the fish they offer are their fundamental wellspring of business. The salt mining industry in the Ada Songhor enclave is known to give a great many occupations to the occupants here.

The part of wetlands in decreasing the dangers of catastrophic events can't be thought little of. Prominent among them is the capacity of wetland stores to store carbon which is our real defender notwithstanding environmental change.

In spite of their support, they are regularly under danger from human exercises, which incorporate infringement and contamination.

Here in Ghana, water bodies, for example, the Sakumo Ramsar Site, the Korle and Chemu tidal ponds and the ever prevalent Odaw Waterway (all in Accra), the Kpeshie Tidal pond and the Songhor Tidal pond in Ada (which is additionally a Ramsar Site) are on the whole wetlands however are in an unfortunate state.

Wetlands are essential to every single human life. The UN millennium ecosystem report is of the sentiment that soon Africa would begin encountering catastrophic events which incorporate any semblance of sea tempests, tornadoes, torrents etc.

This they ascribe to our abusing of the earth, wetlands included - which are making us helpless to catastrophic events. There have been a few occurrences where engineers have infringed on wetlands for improvement ventures.