The Lagos State Water Corporation, LSWC, has said its maximum capacity can produce less than half the amount of water residents of the state need daily.

The corporation on Sunday said it records a shortfall of about 300 million gallons of water per day in the state, leading to shortage in many areas.

Its Group Managing Director, Shayo Holloway, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
According to him, the reason for this deficit is the high population in the state with an average of five per cent estimated growth rate yearly.
”The total demand for water is 540 million gallons per day,” he said. ”The corporation has capacity of 210 million gallons per day leaving a deficit of 300 million gallons.”

Mr. Holloway said “the corporation is, however, working toward meeting the demands for water in the state.”
He said the state had started working on a road map to meet the water demands of Lagos residents.
To achieve this, work had commenced on the Adiyan Phase II Waterworks Project which would be completed in 2016.

“The Adiyan project will add 70 million gallons of water per day to the existing 210 million gallons,” Mr. Holloway said.
He said that the corporation also had a design for water works project in Badagry.

He said the Badagry water works project would be constructed by a private firm through Public-Private Partnership, PPP.
Mr. Holloway said that the corporation had started discussions with an investor to develop the project which would produce 200 million gallons of water per day.

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A LASHA lawmaker even had to complain loud last year =>

Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

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The kind of water those cooperation dispense is only fit for washing of toilet.

Water water everywhere,no water to drink. All those flood water that destroys homes,lives and waste every year should have been channelled into reservoirs for water treatment that will eventually go back into the system for domestic and industrial uses.

[size=16pt]Hopefully they "may" blame Federal Government[/size]