Water
By Blessing Odega,
Jos, Dec.27, 2018 (NAN) Mr Lambert Gomzuk, General Manager, Plateau State Water Board, says residents of Jos-Bukuru have access to only 45 per cent of the 120, 000 cubic litres of water they require daily.
Gomzuk said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Jos.
He said that scarcity of water in the neighbourhood was due to the failure of the water treatment plants to function optimally.
“Therefore, the board has no other option than to ration water supply to various homes in the area,’’ he said.
Gomzuk said that the Yakubu Gowon Treatment Plant and the Laminga Treatment Plant had the capacity to pump out 90, 000 cubic meters and 30, 000 cubic meters of water respectively every day if they were functioning well.
He, however, said that board had accessed a World Bank loan to enable it to tackle the technical hitches currently facing the treatment plants by 2019.
He also said that the board had started applying the powdered chlorine, instead of the gaseous chlorine, in treating its water, so as to forestall the recurrence of the gaseous chlorine leakage that killed several people in 2015. (NAN)
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Edited by Shittu Obassa and Dayo Komolafe