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302:, Awuah supervised several water quality analysis projects to raise awareness about pollution in urban streams and ground water contamination from onsite sanitation systems. Her research developments include weighting systems for impact assessment of water developments in Ghana and arsenic removal from ground water using local materials. Other focus areas include major pathogen removal mechanisms in waste stabilization ponds, the role of arsenic in Buruli ulcers as well as environmental practices and risk factors associated with the disease, risk factors associated with waste-water use in agriculture, the role of arsenic and health impacts associated with charcoal production, and food vendor hygiene. 306:
environmental health, and sanitation. Notable among them are the EU-funded SWITCH project on urban water management and the CapWa project on capturing of water vapor to conserve water and energy in industries, the African SNOWS project on research capacity building for water supply, environmental health, and sanitation, and the SMART sanitation project to develop smart toilet technologies for the urban poor. These projects have generated millions of dollars for the institutions involved and established Awuah as a worldwide expert.
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dean of the Faculty of Civil and Geomagnetic Engineering from 2008 to 2010. In addition, she served on the College of Engineering Appointments and Promotions Committee, the College Infrastructural Committee, and the College of Engineering Library Committee. She was also a member of the Disciplinary Committee, and as a member of the Faculty of Social Science Board, is the lecturer in charge of Environmental Quality Engineering.
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and served as the Deputy Chief Conservator of Forestry in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions. Her mother, Margaret Annan, is a retired nurse's aid is from the village of Gomoa Dago in Ghana. Awuah completed her ordinary level education at Akim Oda in 1973 and finished her advanced level education at
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She is an executive board member, representing the African region, of the Organization of Women in Science from the Developing World, and serves on several other local and international boards, including the World Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, the International Foundation for
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In addition to her 32-year teaching career, Awuah has held several leadership positions at KNUST. She was head of the Department of Environmental and Technology at its Institute of Science and Technology for Africa from 2004 to 2006, head of the Civil Engineering department from 2006 to 2008, and
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Awuah has over 100 publications to her credit in refereed journals, conference papers, environmental reports, and book chapters. She has supervised more than 200 undergraduate students and over 50 postgraduate students and directed several international research collaborations in water supply,
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in Syracuse. In 1998, she was awarded a fellowship from the Dutch government to pursue a PhD in waste-water treatment at the Institute of Infrastructural, Hydraulic, and Environmental Engineering (now
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In the late eighties and early nineties, Awuah devoted attention to addressing the issue of HIV/AIDS. She also led a team of Cornell University students to organize a workshop on hygiene education in
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in 1986 in the Department of Civil Engineering. She became a senior lecturer in 1996, an associate professor in 2002, and applied for full professorship in 2008.
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Among her professional honors, Awuah received a UNESCO Mondialogo Award in 2007 for innovative research in engineering. She was also recognized in 2008 by the
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Science, SPLASH, the EU Body for Water Supply and Sanitation, Water Aid Ghana, and Zoom-lion Ghana Limited.
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As a researcher with special interests in water supply, sanitation, waste water treatment, hygiene, and
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After completing her national service at the Forest Products Research Institute in Kumasi (now the
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in 1975. She earned a Bachelor of Science at the University of Science and Technology (renamed
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Esi Awuah is the eldest child of Emmanuel Broni Asare and Margaret Annan. Her father is from
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and former principal of the College of Agriculture at the University of Education,
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State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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scholarship to study environmental sciences in the United States at the
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Ghanaian
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
BSc
College of Environmental Science and Forestry
MSc
UNESCO-IHE
PhD
Vice Chancellor
Government of Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
R. T. Awuah
UNESCO Mondialogo
Ghanaian
University of Energy and Natural Resources
Sunyani
Akim Oda, Ghana
Aburi Girls' Secondary School
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Kumasi
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
World Health Organization
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
UNESCO-IHE
KNUST
University of Cape Coast
University of Education
environmental risk assessment
Bimbilla
Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development

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