Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola says the present administration has planned steady water supply for the state residents till 2020.

A statement on Wednesday said the governor spoke during an inspection visit to the ongoing expansion of Adiyan Waterworks.

The waterworks would deliver 70 million gallons of water per day when completed.

Fashola, after the inspection, said the water projects which the administration was implementing would take the state to the level of sustainable and efficient water supply.

He said, “Currently, there are reticulation contracts that have been issued including pipe networks and pipelines being laid across the state to receive the supply of water when it is done.

“The planned expansion work at Adiyan, which has been on the drawing board since the 1970s, is expected to give the state 70 million gallons of water per day which is the combined capacity of all the mini water works and micro water works.

He added that the Adiyan expansion would help the government to serve areas like Iju, Agege, Mushin and Ilupeju.

Fashola said, “It will help us relieve pressure from Iju Waterworks and Adiyan Phase One by implementing the expansion which they planned almost three decades ago and bring water to people in those areas that I have mentioned.

“It will also increase our capacity therefore to sustain life, prevent disease, provide healthy living at affordable cost, reduce the dependency that our people currently have in purchasing water, some of which is of questionable integrity.”

The governor said efforts were on to tackle lack of potable water in some areas in the state.

He said the government was also working on Odomola to serve Epe area.

Fashola was accompanied on the inspection by the Managing Director of the state’s water corporation, Mr. Shayo Holloway; Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and his Physical Planning and Urban Development counterpart, Mr. Olutoyin Ayinde.
http://www.punchng.com/news/lasg-plans-water-supply-till-2020/

berem: Do people still depend on public water supply? 50 percent of lagosians have their own boreholes or they share with people that don't have. I wonder if by 2020 people will still depend on public water supply.

btw, what happened to the water works at Festac Town?

Eko Ile:


What's this got to do with the topic?

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Everything! Since most people have found ways to secure water for themselves.

I won't be surprised if LASG starts to TAX residents with borehole under an obscure mining & drilling tax and then force everyone to have their polluted water irrespective of if you need it or not.

Eko Ile:


Water suply problmes and people sinking boreholes in nothing new in Nigeria especially after decades of neglect, lack of adequate power supply needed to pump water, bad water and pipe netword... and to address these decades old challenges, theve built 15 mini water water works, new power plant to effect 24/7 non stop water pumping, now they are expanding the water warks to supply many more millions of gallons/day.

The reality about borehole is irrelevant, what is relevant is what our leaders are doing to correct the situation and that's exatly what they are doing.

If they don't you people cry and cry and if they do, you still cry and cry. What do you want them to do exactly? Sit and do nothing?


Eeverything is you having a problem and the government not doing anything about it so you are wrong and your views here are still irrelevant.

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arrogant ACN r0b0t

Goddex: It's a very big shame on opposition ACN for a State they have ruled for 14 years only to start promising pipe borne water in 2020. Municipal water supply is a sole responsibility of the state government so Tinubu and the loudmouth Liar Muhammed cannot play that their usual pusssy cat tricks of pushing blames on FG.

Why 2020? Calabar and Abuja are examples of Nigerian cities that have steady public water supply round the clock and it took them just a few years to do that. Besides, Fashola's term ends in 2015. It looks like this is an indirect way of telling Lagosians to forget about Pipe borne water.

berem: Do people still depend on public water supply? 50 percent of lagosians have their own boreholes or they share with people that don't have. I wonder if by 2020 people will still depend on public water supply.

btw, what happened to the water works at Festac Town?

naptu2:

My sister, I watched this briefing on the news two days ago and the first thing I thought of was you.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/fg-lagos-others-collaborate-to-restore-festacs-lost-glory/

Goddex: It's a very big shame on opposition ACN for a State they have ruled for 14 years only to start promising pipe borne water in 2020. Municipal water supply is a sole responsibility of the state government so Tinubu and the loudmouth Liar Muhammed cannot play that their usual pusssy cat tricks of pushing blames on FG.

Why 2020? Calabar and Abuja are examples of Nigerian cities that have steady public water supply round the clock and it took them just a few years to do that. Besides, Fashola's term ends in 2015. It looks like this is an indirect way of telling Lagosians to forget about Pipe borne water.

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arrogant ACN r0b0t

engineerd:

Just out of curiosity, what makes him/her ARROGANT? Cause he rebutted your argument?
You and the 3 people that liked your rubbish post are the arrogant lot!

Crayola1:

Big words for a guy who spells engineered wrong in the age of spell check

engineerd:


YOU ARE A BIG FOOOL...IDIOTIC AS*S-WIPE! LET ME EDUCATE YOU, YOU FLIPPIN ILLITERATE......I DID NOT INTEND TO SPELL "ENGINEERED". "ENGINEERD" WAS A WORD I COINED TOGETHER FROM 2 WORDS....I WILL LET YOU USE YOUR CORRODED BRAIN TO GUESS WHAT THE WORDS ARE...OLOSHI ALAKORI TRYING TO COME AT ME?

brownlord: 2020? we don die for this country, so i have to wait till 7 yrs time before i can drink clean water?

SLIDE waxie: ur brain is like a broken record! Can't u apprehend a simple, short and precise article?

SLIDE waxie: ur brain is like a broken record! Can't u apprehend a simple, short and precise article?

SLIDE waxie: ur brain is like a broken record! Can't u apprehend a simple, short and precise article?

pro01: And then they would ban private ownership of boreholes and wells, and also ban the Hausa guys that sell water in plastic containers. . .and thereafter impose an atrocious fee that Lagosians must pay for water supply.

Oh, I forgot, the useless governor and his rascally, greedy, and extortionist co-travellers in the Asiwaju Company of Nigeria (ACN) would be disgraced out of the state in 2015. Let another party ensure "total water supply by 2020". Lagosians would rather drink their urines than buy water from Asiwaju Tinubu.

Crayola1:

English had died a painful death o....comprehend dear

Crayola1:

English had died a painful death o....comprehend dear