As Ghana joins the world to mark this year's World Water Day, Joy News’ Joseph Opoku Gakpo visits Devime, a former fishing community in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region and reports the Akosombo dam has cost the jobs of locals in the community.

Although the construction of the Akosombo Dam has helped light up Ghana and accelerated its development over the years, the damning of the Volta River has caused several of its tributaries downstream to become extinct – making it impossible for communities along it to earn their livelihoods from the river.

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