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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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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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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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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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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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