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Jun
There are fears of an environmental disaster at Tongor-Dzemeni in the Volta Region as traders dealing in pesticides have moved their wares to the banks of the Volta Lake to attract customers. The traders have further resorted to entering the water to meet passengers arriving on boats to sell the pesticides and other products to them. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has raised red flags about the practice and warned the traders and stall keepers to stop the practice immediately or face the law. The Volta Regional Director of the EPA, Hope Smith Lomotey, sounded the caution last Thursday when…