ABSTRACT
This research is aimed at giving the causes of the operational and management problems of rural water supply programme in Nigeria, with a case study of Enugu State corporation Enugu.
To guide the study, five research questions were formulated and tested with percentages and ranking.
Based on the findings, some major findings include; that the ENSWC have inadequate as well as unsuitable materials and human resources for changes in the rural water supply programme in Enugu.
Consequently, it is found that operational and management problems of rural water supply in Nigeria, had adversely affected the functionality of the rural water supply.
Finally it is found that frequent changes in government and leadership of the country had adversely affected the management of Enugu State water corporation.
Based on the above findings some major recommendations were made for effective implemetations.
Chapter One
Introduction 1
Reference 13
Chapter Two
Literature Review 14
Reference 47
Chapter Three
Research Methodology 48
References 55
Chapter Four
References 83
Chapter Five
Bibliography 99
Appendixes 102
References 104
Nigeria is blessed by nature with a lot of natural resources amongst which, water is one of them. WHO (1976) confirmed that Nigeria was blessed with abundant water resources, the excess of which has been causing floods and erosion in many parts of the country. However, the distribution of this water resources was not eventy spread over the country, life and other agricultural activities every year irrespective of the drought that frequently occur in the northern part of the county, of course man had been obtaining water for domestic and other purposes since man’s creation.
Water supply can therefore be said to be as old as man itself. Inspite of the availability of this water resources, WHO (1976) maintained that its supply to be majority of the population especially the rural areas is every much inadequate.
ILO (1993), affirmed that whenever a community rural or urban exists, that there is already a supply of some sort, otherwise, there would not have been people residing. He noted that rural water supply covers a wide category of schemes. Anambra state of Nigeria Edict No 1 (1978) simply defines Rural water supply as a wide category of schemes ranging from a well width buckets supplying water to a few isolated huts to river pumping schemes from such or simple treatment as communal stand pipes to tap in individuals homes and provisions for livestock and vegetable gardens.
Ilo (1973) however stated that various traditional means of obtaining water has been developed by individuals and communities for many centuries and that some of these systems were very much in use by various communities both rural and urban, in Anambra State and indeed, Nigeria. he however maintained that the rural water supply may be inadequate in quantity. Dangerous to health, inconvenient and unreliable but basically) “water is there and is being used”.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (1973) confirmed that it was only about 20% of the populations of Nigeria that have access to potable water supply. It further stated that have access to people are those that are living in the urban and semi-urban areas of the country and that even the privilege places that have access to such facilities were not being served sufficiently. This is the need for the provision of adequate water supply and sanitation is highly appreciated. And this has promoted the choice of the topic on the management and operational problems of rural water supply in Nigeria. A case study of water corporation Enugu, with a view to recommend solution which if accepted would help to solve these and as well, facilitate to the alleviation of the suffering of the people. Water corporation was established as a parastatals under Anambra state of Nigeria Edict No 16 of 1978. The corporations was originally charged with the statutory responsibility of supplying drinking water to all the urban as well as the rural communities of old Anambra state. It was formally the water section of the then East Central State Ministry responsible of works and housing. The General manager is responsible for the day to day ruining of the corporation, while the Board of directors of the commissioner of the controlling ministry in the absence of the governing board, is responsible for policy matters only operating eleven (11) zonal offices in the state including Enugu” He stated that the corporaiton is principally maintained from Government subventions and Budget Allocation for capital projects and from internally generated revenues, water tariffs, sale of metres fees etc for its day to day operations.
Enugu as a growing industrial and commercial town has been without adequate supply of potable water. This potable water supply inadequacies being experienced in the rural communities of Enugu have been brought about by many factors. despite the huge sums of money being sunk into these rural water supply, yet water is still very inadequate.
The purpose of this research project on the management and operational problems of rural water supply in Nigeria. a case study of water corporation Enugu is to investigate;
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