Water & Sanitation

The Sokoto Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA) has begun training of communities on water safety plans to protect water contamination from point of production to consumption. Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State Mr Tijani Aliyu, the Head of Sanitation, Sokoto RUWASSA, said this on sidelines of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Emergency Working Group visit on ...

Executive Secretary, Sokoto Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), Alhaji Sidi Abass, has linked insurgency, cattle rustling to challenges of poor hygiene and open defecation practice in border communities. Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State Abass made this known when the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Emergency Working Group carried out a Cholera Assessment and Monitoring visit to Sokoto on ...

Stakeholders participating in the National Summit on the Human Right to Water in Abuja on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 called for massive investment in water infrastructure by African governments. L-R: Dr Otive Igbuzor (keynote speaker), Satoko Kishimoto (Transnational Institute), Shayda Naficy (Corporate Accountability) and Nnimmo Bassey (Chair of the board of ERA) and the summit The advice, contained in a ...

Over 150 participants from across the globe that converged on Abuja for a two-day National Summit on the Human Right to Water have carpeted the World Bank and short-sighted leaders of the African continent for promoting water privatisation schemes that have largely cut poor people off a basic human right and thrown their nations into debts. Local and international delegates ...

The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to improve the lives of Nigerians, as it delivered the Zobe Regional Water Supply Scheme in Katsina. Suleiman Adamu Kazaure, Water Resources Minister The dam, which started in 1992, was revisited by the present administration to improve access to potable water for Katsina metropolis and environs. At an inspection visit to the site ...

World leaders and business met recently in Davos just as the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report revealed environmental factors as the most devastating risks to business and society and the most likely. Another major risk identified in the report are water crises, which are listed among the five most damaging risks, confirming a trend that started eight years ago. ...

International experts in water sector have expressed worry over unprofessional and unscientific extraction of water resources through mass drilling of boreholes across the country. Borehole drilling They made the observation at a workshop organised by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday, January 24, 2019 in Abuja. Ms Lawrence Goorcy, ...

The Head of Department, Environment, Bwari Area Council, FCT, Mr Timothy Nwanna, has appealed to institutions to provide toilets for their customers to curb indiscriminate open defecation. A toilet facility Nwanna made the appeal in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Thursday, January 24, 2019 in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He stated that the appeal ...

Global activists, thought leaders, labour unions and human rights advocates will congregate in Abuja from January 29 to 30, 2019 for a national summit that will make advancements on achieving the human right to water in Nigeria and around the world. The Abuja city gate The summit, which has “Nigeria’s Water Emergency: From Resistance to Real Solutions Against Corporate Control” ...

WaterAid Nigeria, in partnership with the Bauchi State Rural Water Supply Agency (RUWASA), said on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 that it would spend about N52 million on provision of potable to 15 communities in Kirfi Local Government Area of the state. Children of Unguwan Gandu Zuntu, Kubau Local Government Area of Kaduna State fetching water from a handpump borehole provided ...