After a period of harsh hot weather conditions that was experienced in some parts of the Country recently, it is indeed with a sigh of relief that most people greeted the onset of the rains. Rainfall is priceless. Indeed a favourable rainfall pattern is a recipe for abundant food supply and water security for domestic, industrial and commercial purposes.

Unfortunately when there is a period of torrential rainfall, it has its own attendant problems. Heavy rainfall could even be a bad omen for the farmer who may have prayed for a favourable rainfall for his crops. This is because; rainfall which comes with strong winds can sometimes lead to destruction of food crops.

Other key problems associated with the rainy season are destruction of property and sometimes loss of lives. Although the rainy season is still young the havoc that has occurred in places such as Aboaso in the Ashanti Region several buildings including a school had their roofs ripped off calls for concern.

The perennial flooding which very often leaves in its trails homelessness and destruction of property as well as ailments such as cholera and malaria associated with flooding, can also not escape mentioning when enumerating some of the repercussions associated with the advent of the rains.

If the forecast given by weather experts on the likely intensity of rainfall in Ghana this year as a result of global climatic changes is any thing to go by then we owe it a duty as a Nation to manage the rainy period.

By: DAVID OWUSU- AMOAH