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Dayo Emmanuel with Agency Reports
57 million people in Nigeria do not have access to safe water and over 130 million people lack access to adequate sanitation, a survey has revealed.
Going by the statistics a total of 32% Nigerians without access to safe water are endangered and prone to water related diseases while 73% of the population also lack adequate sanitation, a worrisome development tantamount to an emergency.
The above findings were revealed as a leading German brand in sanitary fittings commemorated World Earth Day on 22nd April.
Theme of 2017 World Earth Day was: Environmental and Climate Literacy’ and GROHE provided key tips for saving water, especially in Africa.
In a release made available to National Wire (www.nationalwire.com.ng) by African Press Organisation (APO), statistics published by international development organization Water Aid show that 695million people out of Africa’s total 1.2billion people are surviving without basic sanitation and 395 million people are without clean water.
Stating further, with Africa’s population projected to be 2.2 billion by 2030, only 32% of Sub-Saharan Africans will have access to sanitation by 2030.
According to WASHwatch, the collaborative monitoring platform set up by Water Aid, got the worrisome statistics that 57 million people lack access to safe water while over 130 million others have inadequate sanitation.
It was also revealed that 45,000 children under age five die every year from diarrhea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation.
Just recently, 80 people died as a result of outbreak of diarrhea caused by lack of access to clean water and sanitation in Zamfara State, North West Nigeria. Also, last December, Nigeria lost one of her best fresh graduates, Udeme Monday to diarrhea in same Zamfara State.
Udeme, a first class graduate of the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom, South of Nigeria was observing his compulsory national service in Zamfara State where he was infected and later died.
GROHE has since 2009 launched the Green Mosque initiative in a lot of countries where it has partnered with local entities to install water-efficient products in the ablution rooms of mosques to help the respective regions achieve sustainable reduction in water consumption.
The initiative has however reduced water consumption for the cleansing rituals by roughly30 percent which is good for the environment and helps cut costs.
