Abstract
The performance status of access to safe water sources in a community is determined by the percentage of the population using domestic water sources that meet international standards. Nigeria achieved a total of about 67% of the population with access to safe water sources by 2015 at the end of the period of the Millennium Development Goals. Ensuring universal access to safe and affordable drinking water for all requires investment inadequate infrastructure, this requirement led to the investigation of facilities currently available in Bauchi State of Nigeria. A baseline survey was conducted in the State towards monitoring progress on development goals, the baseline survey covered safe water sources and health facilities in State. It was found that Dambam Local Government Area recorded the highest access of 60.6% of the population with access to safe water sources, 33.33% of the population in Bauchi Local Government Area has access to public safe water sources while the lowest access recorded 5.26% in Toro Local Government Area. The functionality status of installed safe water sources in the State is currently low; Bauchi Local Government Area recorded a functionality status of 46% for the public motorized schemes and 66% functionality status for the handpump equipped boreholes. It was recommended that in working towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal number 6, massive repair and rehabilitation exercise is required to be carried out on non-functional water supply sources in the State to improve the access to safe water sources.
Highlights
Nigeria’s access to safe drinking water sources and acceptable sanitation practices contributes to global achievement on percentage population of people with access to safe water sources and adequate sanitation, national figures for Nigeria shows that only 67% of the population had access to at least basic improved drinking water sources (WHO, 2017). 300 million people without access to safe water sources worldwide, live in sub-Saharan Countries in Africa (UNICEF/WHO, 2015), as a result, a high percentage of the population without access to safe water sources are burdened with poor health based on the use of unprotected water sources such as rivers, streams, unprotected springs and unprotected hand dug wells
World Population Review (2018)), number of functional water sources in each Local Government Areas (LGAs), the estimated water demandand calculated water supplied to each LGA and percentage ratio of water supplied to water demand in each LGA is presented in table 1
The most critical outcome of the analysis on the percentage values of water supplied to water demand in the LGAs shows that Dambam LGA has the highest value of 60.60% while Ningi and Toro LGAs have values as low as 8.33% and 5.26% respectively, an average of 27.59% value of water supplied in the State against demand
Summary
Nigeria’s access to safe drinking water sources and acceptable sanitation practices contributes to global achievement on percentage population of people with access to safe water sources and adequate sanitation, national figures for Nigeria shows that only 67% of the population had access to at least basic improved drinking water sources (WHO, 2017). 300 million people without access to safe water sources worldwide, live in sub-Saharan Countries in Africa (UNICEF/WHO, 2015), as a result, a high percentage of the population without access to safe water sources are burdened with poor health based on the use of unprotected water sources such as rivers, streams, unprotected springs and unprotected hand dug wells. 300 million people without access to safe water sources worldwide, live in sub-Saharan Countries in Africa (UNICEF/WHO, 2015), as a result, a high percentage of the population without access to safe water sources are burdened with poor health based on the use of unprotected water sources such as rivers, streams, unprotected springs and unprotected hand dug wells. Many of these sources are found where open field defecation is practiced and flood-washed wastes affect the quality of water (FMWR, 2016). A wide range of ecological and human crises results from inadequate access (Sowjanya and Sailaja, 2017), the proximity of the safe water source to the household plays a major role in quantities of water used, the importance of reducing distance of new water sources in close proximity to end users cannot be over emphasized (Carter et al, 1997)
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