OVERVIEW
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I'm back once again to talk on a pressing issue in the world today and that is the unavailability of water in the world with special attention to a village in Lugbe area of Abuja, Nigeria.
Water is said to cover at least 70% of earth surface. We'd think with its high percentage it will be plenty and readily available for all and sundry.
Clean water is rare and a scarce commodity in some part of the world, maybe Africa, though. In as much as it serve several purpose such as drinking, bathing, cooking, irrigation for farms and so on, it is still not easily accessible to some people.
Dirty and unkempt environments add to the problem of many people in relation to water supply, when there's inadequate environmental sanitation human beings are exposed to diseases like cholera, typhoid fever and several other water-borne infections. A lot of people die yearly as a result of diarrheal related diseases - mostly children.
CASE STUDY
I'd be using Peace village, along Federal Housing Area, Lugbe, Abuja as a case study. Peace village is one of the many villages in Abuja and it has features of a typical village such as not too modern houses, untarred roads, farm and markets.
There is limited amount of water in circulation in this village.
What do I mean by this?
Majority of the households have a rocky soil, in other words, their soil is hard and makes it difficult to drill for contemporary borehole water system or the traditional well system. For this reason it is difficult for houses to get water in their house.
This makes them incur extra expenses daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly.
How?
They rely on men who uses wheel barrows to get water from few houses that were able to drill their ground to access water. The owners of the houses will sell the water to the wheelbarrow men and the wheelbarrow men sell it to the final consumers.
Speaking with one of them he says the house owners who have borehole would sell a keg of about 25 litres to them at the rate of #10 ($0.026) and they resell to the final consumers at #20 ($0.052) per keg. So, on an average a household may buy up to 5 kegs which last for at least 2 days at the rate of #100 ($0.26). Then the process repeats itself day in day out.
CONCLUSION
We use water for most of our daily activities and it should be readily available to all and sundry. It would have been a different story, a more pleasant one at that if the government focus on providing the essential social amenities such as water for its citizens. The problem is still not on the high side in this case because the amount the water is been sold is minimal. It would have been a crazy situation if a keg of water is not affordable.
This young man has just one keg left in his wheelbarrow. He has sold the rest.
All contents are originally written by me,
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