WRITTEN BY GAB ALOKWE
Guests on issues an ABS Radio audience participatory programme have called for collective efforts between the government and the private sector to ensure accessibility of portable water for the citizenry.
A participant on the Programme, who is an expert on Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reforms Programme, Mr Kabiru Abass, suggested a partnership where government will control the urban water corporation while the private companies, run the sector to guarantee its functionality and sustenance.
Mr Abass, further attributed the problem of water schemes to lack of capacity transfers to Nigerian engineers, regulations, operation and maintenance and charged host communities to take full ownership of water infrastructure in their various areas.
Another guest on the Programme, who is the Head Department of Geography and Meteorology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Dr Emma Ezenwaji, lamented that about three thousand nine hundred children die daily across the globe, due to poor quality water and called for a lasting policy on various water boards to make it functional.
He advocated more micro water scheme to help address water problems in the state.
Callers to the Programme, Messrs Ikechukwu from Awka and Ibenna from Nkpologwu, stressed the need to make various boreholes in their areas functional.
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