Federal Ministry of Water Resources

Established: April 2010

Minister: Mrs. Sarah Reng Ochekpe

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Central Ogbia Regional Water Scheme, Bayelsa - N4.7bn

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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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EU assisted Small Town Water Supply (EU:STWS) in Adamawa, Delta & Ekiti.

Cost sharing

%

EU

FG

LGA & Communi-ties

Towns

Progress

OngoingCompleted

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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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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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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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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Honourable Minister, Mrs. Ochekpe Commissioning Community Total Sanitation Facilities

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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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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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Water Quality Laboratory, Ilorin , Kwara State

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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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Inyishsi Small Earth Dam Imo StateCurrently 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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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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Rehabilitation of Oyan Dam, Ogun State.

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Goronyo Dam Rehabilitation in Sokoto State

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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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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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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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Irrigation has the potential to increase agricultural productivity by as much as tenfold.

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Irrigation

PotentialDeveloped

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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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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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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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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Tower Installation to Evacuate 30 Megawatts of Hydroelectricity to Kaduna

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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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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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• 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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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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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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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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Training and capacity building for the States’ personnel. Massive capacity building in core disciplines i.e. Engineering, hydrology, hydrogeology etc.

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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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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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Demonstration of slab construction in Osogbo, Osun State287 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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