As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to celebrate the World Water Day, the Federal Government has said that over 43 per cent of its citizens lack access to good water, despite the accomplishment and the enormous opportunities present in the water sector in terms of abundant freshwater, favourable weather, substantial human capacity and numerous institutional arrangements.
The government also attributed open defecation to the cause of cholera, typhoid, dysentery, diarrhea, hepatitis B and other water-borne diseases.
Speaking at the celebration of the 2018 World Water Day, with the theme ‘Nature for Water,’ the Federal Government, through the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, said the provision of water infrastructure was capital intensive, adding that concerted efforts by stakeholders to overcome the challenges, was needed.
