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On 27 March, girls carry buckets filled with water, in the Kwanaya camp for internally displaced people, outside Yola, the capital of Adamawa, a state in the country’s north-east. Other children, women and men are gathered nearby. UNICEF supports the operation of a small clinic and helps maintain a supply of fresh drinking water in the camp.In March 2015 in Nigeria, 15.5 million people, including 7.3 million children, are affected by the continuing crisis in the country’s north-eastern region. More than 1.2 million Nigerians have fled their homes as a result of violence and attacks by Boko Haram insurgents that have escalated since the beginning of 2015. Many of the displaced, most of whom are children and women, are sheltering with in host communities that have limited resources, and in formal and informal camps. All are in urgent need basic supplies, health and nutrition services, and critical water sanitation and hygiene support to prevent the spread of disease. Over 150,000 people – the vast majority children and women – have also fled to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, further straining vulnerable communities – some of which are already facing food insecurity and malnutrition, are prone to disease outbreaks and natural disasters, and often already host hundreds of thousands of refugees, returnees and migrants who have escaped violence and hardship throughout the region. The impact of the crisis on children and women is of particular concern. Many of them have lost their homes and belongings –escaping with only the clothing they were wearing; and some have walked for days – or even weeks – to find refuge. Many children in the region have been traumatized and are in need of psychosocial support. They have witnessed violence and atrocities, including seeing parents and siblings slaughtered by Boko Haram insurgents; and have been exposed to or have experienced violence and brutality. Their homes have been burned and their schools have bee

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The Federal Government has said that current National access to water supply stand at 57%, that millions of Nigerians in rural area lack access to improved drinking water sources. 

Speaking at the ‘World Water Day’ with Theme: Nature of Water 2018, on Thursday in Abuja, Sulieman Adamu, Minister of Water Resources noted that with the increasing rate of population growth, access to clean water and sanitation has continued to decline steadily.

Adamu, who was represented by Musa Ibrahim, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of water resources, lamented on the declining percentage of Nigerians getting their water supply through piped network from 31% in 1990 to less than 7% in 2017.

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The minister said, “this shows that majority of the 93% are drawing water from other sources that cannot guarantee freshness evident in the indiscriminate digging or boreholes with resultant consequence on the environment in the urban areas and fetching of unclean water from rivers and stream in the rural areas.

He said, “We need to work harder to attain SDG 6, which is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to safe water by 2030 while protecting the ecosystem. As part of Nature Base Solution (NBS, it is time to ‘go green’ and ‘stay green’.

According to him, this year World water day symposium and the deliberations will not only educate on the Nature base Solution but will address crucial elements to improve the nexus between water energy, food and ecosystem.

In his goodwill message, Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO, represented by Dr Simone Gregor noted that according to the latest United Nation world water development report, 3.6 billion people around the world, which is about half of the worlds population, live in potentially water scare areas during a at least one month a year, adding that the figure could rise to more than 5 billion in 2050.

She, however, highlighted that reasons for water global shortage as, “freshwater resources are continually under the combined pressure of global population growth, climate change, the exponential increase in consumption and the spread of lifestyle that squander resources.

Azoulay call for an urgent solution to be found to protect Earths natural capital.

In her remark, Chichi Okoye, Country Director, Water Aid Nigeria said the World water  day with its theme, Nature for water emphasis on the need for exploring nature based solutions to the current water challenges being faced as a nation and region.

 

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