Water is next to air in importance. The World Bank declared water as an economic good while\r\nendorsing the international demand for water supply. Human health depends on having access to safe,\r\nadequate and reliable water supply. In Africa, and of course in Nigeria, one half of the entire continentââ?¬â?¢s\r\npeople (particularly in rural areas/communities), suffer from one or more of the six main diseases\r\nassociated with poor or polluted water. Statistics show that Africa has the highest occurrence of\r\ncholera and typhoid epidemics as well as child diarrhea. Of the 46 countries in which schistosomiasis\r\nare endemic, 40 are in Africa, of the 19 countries reporting guinea worm, 16 are in Africa. In September\r\n2000, 147 heads of state and governments, and 189 nations in total, committed themselves to the\r\nMillennium Development Goals (MDGs). One of the targets defined for achieving the MDGs is to ââ?¬Å?halve\r\nby 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic\r\nsanitationââ?¬Â. This paper constitutes a source of information for water and sanitation coverage estimates\r\nin southwest geo-political zone of Nigeria. It provides information of the current status of water supply\r\nand sanitation in the zone. The paper attempts to look into the appropriateness of the use of the\r\ntechnology of integrated mini water scheme and infiltration gallery as a means of providing safe and\r\nadequate domestic water to rural community people to serve as the best preventive medicine against\r\nthe prevalent water diseases.
Loading....