Ninety per cent of households in Nigeria consume contaminated water and other impure substances, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) has revealed. Tap water Mrs Maureen Zubie-Okolo, a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with UNICEF, told newsmen that the water and sanitation situation in the country was worrisome. She said although 64.1 per cent of Nigerians had access to improved drinking water sources, North-East states were, however, lagging behind with 52.4 per cent, while South-West states top the chart with 87.3 per cent of its residents having access to improved water sources. “About two out of every three households use improved water sources, while a little more than one-third use improved sanitation compared to 58.5 percent and 31 per cent respectively in 2011. According to the report, overwhelming majority representing 90.8 per cent of households in Nigeria, drink water contaminated by faeces and other impure substances like Ecoli. Zubie-Okolo said there was the need for more advocacy to all tiers of government to make policies and programmes that would increase access to improved water sources and sanitation. She said it was a known fact that water-borne diseases, such as diarrheal had been the leading cause of hospital admissions, especially among under-five children. The UNICEF official said access to basic water and sanitation would promote wellbeing of citizens and reduce preventable diseases and deaths among the populace. According to her, the MICS report, carried out in 2017 by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in collaboration with UNICEF, shows the country’s progress and lapses in key areas of development. She said the overall goal was to advocate for a change in policy formulation and implementation for the development of the nation. Mrs Elizabeth Ugoh told NAN that the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, was working with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to enforce the National Standard for Drinking Water Quality. Ugoh, a Deputy Director, Water Quality Control and Sanitation in the ministry said, “the ministry is calling on all Nigerians drinking water from borehole and other sources to regularly test their water in laboratories across the country to reduce consuming unwholesome water. “We are also calling on borehole drillers to abide by the National Drilling Code of Practice,’’ she added. According to her, six new laboratories are being constructed in the six geo-political zones by the Federal Government to improve water quality and standard in the country. Ugoh said that the six existing laboratories were inadequate due to the country’s large population. It would be recalled that UNICEF had called on the media to use data journalism to help highlight lapses in development indices and the overall goal of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. NAN
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YES PUBLIC WATET PIPING THROUG GUTTER.

VERY REAL IN LARGO'S AND ABUJA.

May God save us

so since ruling Nigeria fr years der hv no improved water...nawa fr north o

No wonder we dey die quick. Yet somepple dey vex when someone called us shit hole. D shit from soakaway dey slip into well. Shithole shit eaters

Uhmm drinking shit water,, shit hole country

When you have your septic tank aka soak away and your well/ borehole within a few feet apart from each other in the same compound... What do you expect? And the well or boreholes are not always properly constructed, they don't get down into the water table. So all the poo and stuff leach into the water... Plenty typhoid cases...hospitals smiling to the bank...

Even though the situation is bad. I don't believe the statistics. In a country where we don't keep proper records. How did they come up with 90%.

Thank God Baba is here now...

They promise us portable and drinkable water, electricity, good road etc, but they are busy buikdin g mansions for there family. Only God will help us.

Anyways our forefathers have been drinking these type of water and nothing happen to them. Our immune system is just too strong. Make I go boil this water before I drink it.

contaminated water or no contaminated water.. who go die early go die early who go live long go live long




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North Easterners drink feaces contaminated This region has suffered

Nawa o. In 2018.

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Change Agenda no reach for water... Buhari sef

Drinking poo water in a sh1thole land... I'm not surprised though!!

Rubbish! When the leaders refused to provide us clean water and you want us to wait for buari. The last time I checked, there's no water board in Nigeria. We don't have choice than to rely on borehole water and this stupid lady have the mind to say rubbish.

my question, how does the water get contaminated with faeces ? tell us how and give us solutions not try to sell you market..

Main reason typhoid today and typhoid tomorrow.....

Sh!thole country!!!

This is just a fact

Kukuma call us shithole

this got me thinking, so I have been eating poo back to back

no wonder some Nigerians have poo-infested brains

maxtop:
They promise us portable and drinkable water, electricity, good road etc, but they are busy buikdin g mansions for there family. Only God will help us.

Anyways our forefathers have been drinking these type of water and nothing happen to them. Our immune system is just too strong. Make I go boil this water before I drink it.

our forefathers no use soakaway

Thats true

kingsol1759:
my question, how does the water get contaminated with faeces ? tell us how and give us solutions not try to sell you market..

Through seepage of fecal water in the soakaways and pit laterins that are built close to boreholes. It's even worse in Lagos where there is acute land shortage and many landlords build boreholes inches away from soakaways

Yawns.

Story story....of all the many issues affecting Nigeria- This is not an issue .. We dont die over this balderdash and people who get sick from bad water in Nigeria is very on the Low side.. You people can shove your 90% in your ass.

No wonder since I've been back to this country I've just been getting fat thinking I'm living large not knowing say na shiit I dey eat. I don die.