Bauchi working to improve water supply, sanitation – commissioner

Bauchi State commissioner for water resources, Ghali Abdulhamid, says the state government is carrying out major reform policies to reflect sanitation and sewage components to develop adequate and safe public water supply. He disclosed this in Bauchi on Wednesday in Bauchi while delivering a speech at the 2017 World Water Day celebration Tagged "Water, Waste […]

Bauchi State commissioner for water resources, Ghali Abdulhamid, says the state government is carrying out major reform policies to reflect sanitation and sewage components to develop adequate and safe public water supply.

He disclosed this in Bauchi on Wednesday in Bauchi while delivering a speech at the 2017 World Water Day celebration Tagged "Water, Waste Water".

He however lamented that a large  percentage of drinking water in the state is contaminated which he said was responsible for waterborne diseases like cholera, polio, diarrhoea and other  diseases.

"Such water can be used in watering flower beds, gardens, washing bikes and cars as not to waste water within our environment,” he said.

The commissioner said the state government in collaboration with UNICEF has provided hand pump boreholes in various locations in the state to reduce shortage of water being faced by the people.