Lagos fights water facility vandals

The Lagos State Government has said it was adopting measures to address the challenge of water facility vandalism and boosting infrastructure to increase supply and address the shortage of potable water.

The Managing Director of Lagos Water Corporation, Mumuni Badmus, disclosed this during the maiden Annual Water Sanitation and Hygiene Essay Competition organised by the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers in collaboration with LWC to commemorate World Water Day in Lagos.

He noted that the design capacity at the moment did not spread water to all households in the state. Badmus, however, assured that the government was already tackling the challenge through some waterworks projects.

He said, “Households already connected to the state’s water lines were enjoying steady supply and more residents would soon be connected. The LWC has deployed green technology in ensuring increased supply to 210 million gallons per day.”

He noted that the LWC was collaborating with other ministries and agencies to stop water infrastructure vandalism in the state.

“There have been damages to water infrastructure, preventing water from getting to a lot of areas. We are looking into that and we are doing a lot in making sure that it stops, and we will do more.

”To get water to every household, we have developed this design to bring in green projects, in that, for instance, from Epe all the way to Victoria Island, there is a 210MDG. We call it Igbonla, and that has been in the making. And the government is still on course to do that.”