Residents now spend more to buy water for domestic uses as they relied on water vendors who sell water in carts as pipe-borne water had dried up.
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The minister said this on Friday when the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja.
According to a statement issued in Abuja, the governor made the call at the Regular Meeting of the National Council on Water Resources in Akure, Ondo State.
Fossil Fuel are the major energy source being used in Nigeria today which means that Nigeria is not free from the dangers inherent in the use of Fossil Fuel. Nigeria may not be able to entirely free itself from Fossil Fuel use but it should minimize it’s consumption and dependencies due to the following reasons.
Declaring open the event tagged: “National Consultation on Water and Food Security for Nigeria,” on Monday, the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Musa Istifanus, said the international community encouraged African countries to develop National Policies that could guarantee food and water security in the continent
They are: Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa, University of Ilorin, University of Maiduguri and the University of Calabar.
The poor bear the greatest brunt of this lack of access to water and sanitation. For women and girls, collecting water cuts into time they can spend caring for families and studying. In insecure areas, it also puts them at risk of violence and attack. UNICEF estimates that in Africa alone, people spend 40 billion hours every year just walking to collect water. For children, lack of access to safe water can be tragic. On average, nearly 1,000 of them die globally every day from diarrhoeal diseases linked to unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation, or poor hygiene
Nigeria in far away Sweden was applauded for her efforts in constructing the multi-billion naira Kashimbilla dam as one of the global example of connecting the nexus of food, water and energy.
Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe said at the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Water conference, holding in Stockholm Sweden, that Nigeria would not be intimidated into dropping her plans to use the available water resources in the country for hydro-power.
The Minister made the appeal when she received the Chairman of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, Hon. David Racha, in her office in Abuja
The team which comprises representatives from Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Federal Ministry of Environment is chaired and co-chaired by the Permanent Secretaries, Federal Ministries of Water Resources and Agric and Rural Development Baba Umar Faruk and Mrs. Ibukun Odusote respectively. They are expected to report to the Ministers of the two Ministries, Mrs. Sarah Reng Ochekpe and Adesina Adewumi who would forward the report to the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Jonathan made the promise when members of the board and Water and Sanitation for Africa visited the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday
He said that the money would be used to execute projects in three
states – Plateau, Adamawa and Ekiti – because they were rated lower
than 30 per cent in sanitation coverage
The statement by Ale, detailing the papers presented at the seminar, which is the maiden one for the association, and titled: Why water projects fail, reads: The need to justify the spending of the government cost-benefit-impact realities of the investment expended on water projects in Nigeria necessitated the seminar organised by the well concerned stakeholders and practitioners in water industry