A metre away from where I stand, one can see a beautiful plain stretch of land like playing ground for school children in the Sahara Desert. Just a few months ago, the picture was reminiscent of chalk and cheese.  Swimmers in their numbers were at the bank of the river to carry people and goods across for a fee. Water current and waves facilitate what oceanographers call upwelling, full of activity in what nature has created them for. Everything has now disappeared into dryness, leaving only pools of water created by vegetable farmers at a section of the river. Travelers no longer get stranded but the fish and waterfowls are gone.  Fishermen who depend on it are moving elsewhere to escape the pinch of the drought. Human and animal footprints stretch across the dry river bed to the horizon.  We followed them, looking for clues about what’s happened to the White Volta which has vanished into thin air along Burkina Faso-Ghana border. We walked downstream, the harmattan air lip-chapping dry.  Many of the people who have depended on the White Volta for centuries were either looking for options or resting in their homes. We walk past clusters of abandoned base meant for the village folks.  Dust devil-danced around us, spinning in warm winds. In the distance we spotted many women busy on the middle of the dried river. As we walk closer, we found they were drying their clothes on the assembled sand. The once large expanse of water the size of an averagely-populated town is gone.  Debris and water pollutants lay discarded, as the harmattan wind increasingly blows from all angles, dust blurring our view from afar. ‘Water’, they say ‘is life’ but this is the absence of it. Though there is little or no challenge crossing the river to other side towards Burkina Faso, the bad effect of the dryness overweighs the good. Sand winners are cashing in, each making a hundred Ghana cedis daily while women dry their clothes in the scorching sun. Vegetable farmers are however at the receiving end. They cannot cultivate their crops or risk losing them to the harsh weather. Adam Yakubu and four others win pile of sand at the bottom of the river for livelihood.  All they need is shovel and few other tools to collect the sand unto tipper truck for construction purposes. It can’t, therefore, be wrong to say rivers contain vast quantities of materials that presently serve as major resources for human.  It basins constitute the ultimate depositional site of sediments eroded from the land, representing the largest residual deposits of sand. At Mognori in the Bawku Central of Upper East Region, vegetable farmers are in a fix. They are unable to irrigate their farms because a stretch of the White Volta which runs through the area has completely dried up. For weeks, the farmers have had to device various means of finding water to keep their crops green. Farmers risk losing their livelihood, as vegetable farming is major source of income for residents here and surrounding communities. Many of the locals have depended entirely on the activity to cater for their families. Severe harmattan and other unfavorable external factors leave farmers with no choice but to attend to their crops every morning to ensure they survive. The White Volta is the only source of water for them during the dry season.  Regrettably, the water has dried up; giving them no hope of survival. Some farmers who have the capacity have had to dig deep into the ground in order to have access to water. Even then, they would have to protect such sources from being invaded by cattle and other animals. Iddrisu Abdul-Aziz is one of the farmers who have been busily digging a trench with the hope of getting water for the vegetable farms. “This is only way we can get find water. As you can see, we are digging deeper into the ground to trace some water other than that our vegetables will wilt”, he stated. According to the United Nations, water use has increased more than twice the rate of population growth in the last century.  By 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world’s population living in water-stressed regions due to climate change. Concerns have been raised about how the world can effectively conserve, manage, and distribute water to prevent crisis. Shortage will have a particularly devastating effect on rural poor people in MOGNORI who depend on unsustainable sources and earn much of their income from water-dependent agriculture. As groundwater levels fall, many smaller farms are rendered unprofitable with their agriculture business. It’s the main cause of their worry. The current water shortage in some countries across the globe is attributed to the effect of climate change. It increases water demand for agriculture, primarily for irrigation, due to prolonged dry periods and severe drought. Around the world, climate change is warming many water bodies faster than it    The heat accelerates evaporation, contriving with human mismanagement to heighten water shortage, pollution, and loss of habitat for birds and fish. Similar scenarios are playing out in rivers in nearly every continent, a combination of overuse and worsening drought.  In 2018, Lake Chad in Africa, for instance, shrunk to the saliva of its former self since the 1960s. The development of heightened irrigation water and fish shortage displaced people and refugees put an additional strain on resources. Utah’s Great Salt Lake as well as California’s Salton Sea and Mono Lake have undergone periods of recession, too. Critical breeding and nesting areas, as well as a playground for recreational boaters, have all diminished. The question many people ask is, can many other rivers and streams survive increasing the rate of evaporation in the coming weeks?