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1. Federal Ministry of Water Resources
Established: April 2010
Minister: Mrs. Sarah Reng Ochekpe
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2. Table of Content-1
• Introduction
• Budget
• Completed Projects-1
• Greater Makurdi Water Supply
• Completed Projects-2
• Completed Projects-3
• Hand Pump Schemes
• Ongoing Projects-1
• Central Ogbia Regional Water Scheme, Bayelsa
• Ongoing Projects-2
• EU assisted Small Town Water Supply
• Ongoing Project-3
• Other Projects
• Water Quality and Sanitation-1
• Commissioning Community Total Sanitation Facilities
• Water Quality Laboratories
• Water Quality and Sanitation-2
• Water Quality Laboratory, Ilorin , Kwara State
• Dams and Reservoir Operations
• Inyishsi Small Earth Dam Imo State
• Kashimbilla
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3. Table of Content-2
• Oyan Dam, Ogun State
• Goronyo Dam, Sokoto
• Ogwashi-uku Dam
• Irrigation and Food Security-1
• Irrigation Projects
• Irrigation Facilities
• Irrigation Potential
• Irrigation and Food Security-2
• Irrigation and Food Security-3
• Hydrology, Flood Control and Climate Change.
• Tower Installation
• Hydrology and Flood Management
• Nigeria Integrated Water Resources Management-1
• Nigeria Integrated Water Resources Management-2
• Development Of Transboundary Waters And Regional Cooperation
• Capacity Building: National Water Resources Institute, Kaduna
• Institutional Changes
• Manpower
• Women Empowerment in the Water Sector
• Water Kiosk
• Demonstration of slab construction
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4. Introduction
• Water has become more important in Nigeria
due to rapid population growth, urbanization,
increased efforts at agriculture and industrial
development.
• It is pivotal in agriculture, marine transport,
hydropower generation, industry and sanitation
among others.
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6. Completed Projects-1
• Northern Ishan Water Supply Project in Edo State
has a Plant Capacity of 9 million litres p/d to
serve communities of Uromi, Ubiaja, Ugengu,
Ugboha and Iguben at the cost of N2.5 billion
• 10million litres p/d Mangu Water Treatment Plant
at the cost of over N1 billion to serve
communities of Gindiri and Mangu townships.
• 9 dams have been completed in Akwa Ibom,
Katsina, Enugu and Ondo increasing volume of
nation’s water reservoir by 422mcm
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7. The Federal Government contributed N2.2billion to the
50 million litres p/d capacity Greater Makurdi Water
supply scheme that can provide access to nearly 1million
people.
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8. Completed Projects-2
• Irrigated area increased from 90,000 hectares in 2010
and 175,000 hectares in 2012 to over 200,000 hectares,
leading to increased production of over 400,000 metric
tonnes of irrigated food products.
• Over 400,000 farmers have access to irrigated land, up
from 236,000 in 2011
• Nearly 70% of the population has access to potable
water.
• The population Seven water supply projects have been
completed, providing additional 4.3million Nigerians
access to potable water.
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9. Completed Projects-3
• Over 4,000 jobs were created in the process.
• As at 2012, 65.29% of the population had access
to safe water, compared to 60% in 2011.
• Significant progress has been made on major
irrigation projects such as South Chad, Bakolori
Irrigation Project and Galma dam.
• Rehabilitation 1,000 No. Hand pump boreholes
builds capacity of communities across the
country. Educating the communities, operators,
instilling sense of ownership and empowerment.
About 70% completion
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10. Completed Solar powered Borehole at
Amaeze Ogil Okigwe, Imo State.
Hand pump at Edufu Amachara,
Amagu Ndi
Uruku Abakaliki LGA Ebonyi State
545 hand pump schemes and 836 motorised boreholes completed across the
nation. Increased access to rural communities with population of about 2
million
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11. Ongoing Projects-1
• Okiriki Water Supply Project, Rivers state - N830m
• Ojirami Water supply Project, Edo State - N966m
• Takum Water Supply Rehab., Taraba State -N263m
• Biu Water Supply reactivated, Borno State - N8.5bn
• Usman Danfodio Water Supply, Sokoto State - N40m
• Zungeru/Wushishi Water Supply Project, Niger State -
N2.1b
• Fed. University of Agric. Makurdi , Benue State - N180m
• Completion of Okpilla Water Supply scheme, Edo State -
N800m
• Rehabilitation of ABU Zaria Water Supply, Kaduna State -
N465m
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12. Central Ogbia Regional Water Scheme, Bayelsa - N4.7bn
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13. Ongoing Projects-2
• Fika – Gadaka Water Supply, Yobe State - N300m
Abandoned between 2007-2012. Reactivated with
injection of about N1 billion
• Rural Water Supply Sector reform in progress in
Anambra, Cross River, Jigawa, Kano, Osun &
Yobe states with funding contribution from the 3
tiers of Government and the European Union.
• 1,000 communities and 54 urban towns and small
towns have so far benefited from Government
contribution of N761,594,780.34.
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14. EU assisted Small Town Water Supply
(EU:STWS) in Adamawa, Delta & Ekiti.
Cost sharing
%
EU
FG
LGA &
Communiti
es
Towns
Progress
Ongoing
Completed
Targeted to population of 500,000 in 28 small towns. So far 14 towns have been
completed. FG has disbursed the sum of N404m
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15. Ongoing Project-3
JICA assisted RWSS project
• Benefitting States (Kebbi, Niger, Enugu, Taraba
and Ondo) were granted of N2.1 billion on
February 23, 2012
• Assist in eliminating water borne diseases
• Support poverty eradication through provision of
water supply and sanitation
• Supply of Drilling rigs, equipment and vehicles
• Supply of casings and screens for the borehole
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16. Other Projects
• African Development Bank rural water supply projects
in Yobe and Osun - $87 million
• Urban Water Supply projects for Oyo and Taraba States
- $80 million (negotiations ongoing)
• Negotiations on new funding for water projects in
Kaduna and Rivers State ongoing - $100 million
• Urban Sector Reform projects in partnership with
World Bank in Kaduna, Ogun, Enugu, Cross River and
Lagos States ongoing. Phases 1 and 11 - $400 million
• Negotiations completed with World Bank for additional
credit line for nationwide Urban Water Sector Reform
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17. Water Quality and Sanitation-1
• Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach now
practised in 32 States
• Monitoring and verification of Open Defecation Free (ODF)
communities in 7 Donor States and 8 non-Donor States.
Exercises carried out in July and November 2011 to verify
if communities were actually ODF as reported by the States.
• 3 consultancies procured to obtain information on best
practices and technologies used for Sanitation in Riverine
Communities, Urban and Semi-Urban areas.
• Consultants recommend inventory of Urban Sewerage
Technologies, to ascertain the different sewerage system in
the urban areas, to find out functionality in Nigeria.
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18. Honourable Minister, Mrs. Ochekpe
Commissioning Community Total Sanitation
Facilities
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19. Enugu Gombe
6 functioning Water Quality Laboratories in Minna, Enugu, Gombe,
Akure, Lagos and Kano used to monitor the quality of different sources
of water nationwide
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20. Water Quality and Sanitation-2
• Pilot Project on Off-Site Sewerage Treatment Technologies
in the Semi-Urban Areas of Nigeria.
• Construction of ponds completed on two sites at Ishan, Ekiti
state and Lafiya, Nasarawa State.
• Construction of 6 new laboratories in Sokoto, Markurdi,
Port-Harcourt, Asaba, Maiduguri and Umuahia are near
completion.
• Ongoing water quality surveillance, safe storage and
household treatment project in Ebonyi, Oyo, Cross River,
Taraba, Zamfara and Niger. Being scaled up to 12 more
states (Gombe, Adamawa, Kebbi, Kaduna, Kogi, Lagos,
Ogun, Enugu, Imo, Bayelsa and Rivers States )
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21. Water Quality Laboratory, Ilorin ,
Kwara State
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22. Dams and Reservoir Operations
• Nigeria has a total of 200 major and medium size
dams with total water storage of 34billion cubic
metres.
• Small hydropower schemes have been integrated
into some regional water projects and dams to
generate about 287MW of electricity for the
National Grid.
• Kontagora (Auna) Dam and Irrigation Project
being constructed for water supplies and irrigation
• Rehabilitation of the Goronyo emergency
spillway and the Alua dam are in progress.
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23. Inyishsi Small Earth Dam
Imo State
Currently engaged in the construction
and rehabilitation of 33 major dams
and 28 small earth dams. 7 other major
dam projects with a combined storage
capacity of 2,269 million cubic meters
have been completed. Water from these
dams are used for irrigation, water
supply, hydropower, fisheries etc.
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24. The Kashimbilla dam project in Taraba State for water supply intended to attenuate flood from
the imminent collapse of lake Nyosup stream in Cameroon has recorded 87% completion
status, will also generate 30MW of electricity is in progress.
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25. Rehabilitation of Oyan Dam, Ogun State.
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26. Goronyo Dam Rehabilitation in Sokoto State
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27. Ogwashi-uku Dam
Feasibility Studies completed at Oyan, Ikere Gorge, Bakolori, Dadin Kowa, Tiga, Kiri, Jibiya, Challawa Gorge, Owena,
Doma, Waya, Mgowo, Zobe, Kampe, Kashimbilla, Ogwashi-uku, Zungeru and Mambilla shows potentials for hydropower
generation with a total capacity of 3,557 MW
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28. Irrigation and Food Security-1
• Renewed effort to accelerate the rate of irrigation
development to enhance food security, employment
generation, poverty alleviation and reduce urban-rural
migration.
• Development of 40 new irrigation projects in all the states
endorsed by the National Economic Council (NEC) and
approved by the president to improve their agricultural
potential through irrigation, drainage and land reclamation.
• Projects will bring additional 76,500 hectares of land under
irrigation and expected to produce about 3 million tonnes of
food crops and provide job opportunities for about 3 million
people.
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29. Middle Rima Sabke
Rehabilitation and construction of 22 irrigation projects around the
country including Middle Rima Valley Irrigation Project, Hadejia Valley
Irrigation Project, Sabke Irrigation Project, Zobe Irrigation Project, Kano
River Irrigation Project, Lower Anambra Irrigation Project, Adarice
Irrigation Project, etc.
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30. Irrigation has the potential to increase agricultural
productivity by as much as tenfold.
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31. Irrigation
Potential
Developed
Nigeria currently has irrigation land potential of about 3.1 million
hectares out of which only 150,000 hectares has been developed.
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32. Irrigation and Food Security-2
• Will reduce national importation of food.
• Ensuring that developed irrigation infrastructure is put
to optimal use in Agricultural sector and other relevant
agencies.
• Collaborating with the World Bank on selected projects
to rehabilitate infrastructure as well as to restructure
management to enhance efficiency.
• Encouraging private commercial irrigation
development. In discussion with several private
investors that have indicated interest to embark on
commercial irrigated agriculture, to develop new areas
for irrigation.
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33. Irrigation and Food Security-3
• Arrangements for young graduate irrigation and
aquaculture farmer programme to train and
encourage youths to take up irrigated agriculture
as well as aquaculture as an occupation, noting
the ageing of the present farming population.
• 57 irrigation projects in all states with irrigation
potential of 316,000 hectares endorsed by NEC
• Execution of additional irrigation hectare to boost
food production
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34. Hydrology, Flood Control and Climate
Change.
• 7 hydrometric monitoring stations with OTT – Duosen data logger
equipment in 6 hydrological areas located at Iseyin, Mokoloki,
Sepeteri, Ede, Ijaka –Oke, Iguoriakhi and Ugonoba completed
• Instrumentation of 11 monitoring wells completed.
• Saline water intrusion studies for the development of mitigation
measures against pollution of groundwater in the coastal and inland
areas of the country was completed in Bayelsa and Benue States.
• Programme for Flood Control and Early Warning System (FEWS)
capacity building developed.
• Installation of state –of- art equipment for monitoring effect of
climate change on water resources in Kaduna zonal office
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35. Tower Installation to Evacuate 30 Megawatts
of Hydroelectricity to Kaduna
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36. Hydrology and Flood
Management
Periodically releases of flow forecasts
along the rivers Niger/Benue system as
a follow up to the Annual Flood
Outlook for the nation have helped in
constantly alerting the nation to ensure
efficient preparedness for possible
flood prevention or mitigation. The
graph shows some peak flows of the
hydrological stations along the Rivers
Niger and Benue from years 2012to
2014. It shows comparative flow
situations along the Rivers Niger and
Benue systems
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37. Nigeria Integrated Water Resources
Management-1
• Consultancy Services for Water Audit for Niger North
Hydrological Area - 70% completion.
• Water Resources Inventory Baseline Survey for Upper
Benue Hydrological Area - 75% completion.
• Water Resources Inventory Baseline Survey for Lower
Benue Hydrological Area - 85% completion
• Development of Guidelines and Regulations for Water
Allocation and Licensing System for Nigeria – 95%
completion.
• Upgrading of Komadugu-Yobe Basin Catchment
Management Plan to cover the entire Lake Chad
Catchment Area – 100% completion
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38. Nigeria Integrated Water Resources
Management-1
• Study and Design of IWRM strategies for combating the Effects of
Climate Change, Drought and Watershed Management in Niger
Central catchment Hydrological Area – 70% completion.
• Pilot Study on River Health for Ogun and Yewa Rivers – 100%
completion.
• Development of Scheme of Service and operational model for the
Commission – 95% completion
• Preparation of IWRM Strategies and Water Efficiency Plan for
Niger South – 100% completion.
• Preparation of National Integrated Water Resources Management
(IWRM) Strategies and Water Efficiency Plan for Nigeria– 80%
completion.
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39. Development Of Transboundary Waters
And Regional Cooperation
• Setting up of Niger Basin observatory for collection and collation of
environmental, socioeconomic and hydrological data and
information to monitor the flow of the River Niger for coordinated
management of the water resources in the basin and riparian
communities.
• Nigeria contributes 40% of the annual budget of NBA
• Development of the Lake Chad Basin Commission Water Charter
for equitable utilization of the water of the Lake Chad and the
development of tools for transboundary water management.
• Nigeria provided $5.0million to support the studies of water transfer
from Oubangi River in Central Africa to Lake Chad for sustainable
development.
• Nigeria is an active voice in NBA and LCBC and continues to
support the African Water Forum (AMCOW).
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40. Capacity Building: National Water
Resources Institute, Kaduna
• Approved as UNESCO Regional Water Centre for
Integrated River Basin Management (RC-IRBM)
on 16 March 2012.
• National Code of Practice for Water Well
Construction Launched
• Ongoing investigation of Lead Poisoning in
Zamfara State water sources commenced
• Conducted Water Quality Assessment in 6 States
within the 6 geopolitical zones.
• Carried out Flood Assessment in Sokoto, Zamfara
(Gusau),and Oyo (Ibadan) States.
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41. Institutional Changes
• Continued to participate in major professional and scientific engagements such
as World Water Forum in Stockholm, Sweden, World Water Forum Marseille,
France, AMCOW, International Commission on Dams (ICOLD), D8 Water
Forum
• In the process of establishing regional controllers of water in the 6 geo-political
zones to inspect, monitor and ensure compliances to standard practice in all
water development activities.
• A new PPP Unit has been set up in order to meet the financial challenges facing
the water sector and carry out sector reforms
• Department for River Basin Operation and Inspectorate has been set up to
coordinate and monitor the activities of the RBDA
• Construction of an ultra modern office complex which will cater to
accommodation challenges and house a modern data centre for hydrogeology,
hydrology, Engineering Workshop and Water Quality Lab for the benefit of the
Nation.
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42. Training and capacity building for the States’ personnel. Massive capacity
building in core disciplines i.e. Engineering, hydrology, hydrogeology etc.
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43. Women Empowerment in the Water
Sector
• 156 rural women and girls were trained in water
kiosks/schemes operation and maintenance in Abia, Bauchi,
Osun and Plateau.
• 55 urban educated women and girls trained on public
procurement processes in Lagos centre for southern states
and Abuja centre for northern states
• 160 rural women and girls were trained on entrepreneurship
skills in of Abia, Bauchi, Osun and Plateau
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Committees (WASHCOMs)
with 50% women representation were established in 40
communities in Abia, Bauchi, Osun and Plateau
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44. Water Kiosk under
construction in
Kabong Satelite
Market, Jos North
LGA, Plateau State
Construction of 1st set of 8 water
kiosks and sanitation infrastructure at
public places are on-going in 8
communities of pilot States.
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45. Demonstration of slab
construction in Osogbo,
Osun State
287 rural women and girls were trained
in Community Led Total Sanitation
(CLTS), slabs construction and public
sanitation facility operation and
maintenance in Abia, Bauchi, Osun and
Plateau.
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