Wiwi River

The Wiwi River, also referred to in some sources as the Wewe River, is an urban river in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It forms part of the drainage system of the Kumasi Metropolitan Area and is one of the watercourses associated with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) campus. The river is significant because of its role in urban drainage, campus ecology, irrigation, wastewater reception, public health studies and biodiversity research. The Wiwi River is located in the south-eastern part of Kumasi. A disaster-risk profile prepared for UNDP Ghana describes the river as flowing in a south-westerly direction through the KNUST campus before joining the Sisan River at Ahensan. The same report identifies Wiwi as one of the four main drainage basins of Kumasi, together with the Subin, Aboabo and Sisan basins. The river has received academic attention because of its links to urbanisation, pollution, agriculture, wetland use and public health. Studies have examined its microbiological water quality, its association with schistosomiasis infection among schoolchildren, the impact of wastewater and land use, and the response of aquatic and riparian invertebrate communities to disturbance.

Flows through: Ghana.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.