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Also, the use of unimproved and surface water dropped over the period. Unimproved water source usage dropped from 15 per cent in 2015 to 11 per cent in 2022. Use of surface water dropped from 10 per cent to 5 per cent over the period.
A villager. Ms Josephine Deko, said she had had a series of skin diseases due to the type of water she had used for bathing.
“We dey dry season and rain no dey fall, only from rain season we dey get water in abundance,” he said. Mr Nnamdi who has two children and his wife is pregnant with their third, buys pure water to drink because they can’t afford to buy supplied water sold between N5,000 to N20,000 every month.
In 2021, 111,062 Cholera cases were suspected in Nigeria with a total death figure of 3,604 in thirty four states of the country.
“The nurse said my daughter’s sickness resulted from the continued drinking of contaminated water. After spending all my savings and selling some of my valuables to treat her, I was forced to borrow an additional N10,000 from friends or risk losing my daughter to Cholera.”
During the COVID-19 crisis in Nigeria, the ministry of water resources awarded contracts worth N1.02 billion to ninety (90) inactive and twelve (12) unregistered companies, according to an investigation conducted by Dataphyte.
Oke Idunn, 34, resident of Asaa, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, would wake as early as 3 am daily searching for water for her family use.
Nigerians may have a water resource challenge on their hands in the coming years. Adding to this problem is water resource management and all the uncertainty around proposed policies.
The 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey has revealed that 60 percent of the Northeast population of Nigeria, lack improved sources of drinking water. At the national level, as much as 42 percent of Nigeria’s rural dwellers and 28 percent of residents of urban areas lacked an improved source of drinking water as of 2018.
