{"id":74779,"date":"2025-09-02T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74779"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:34:35","slug":"fg-to-prioritise-water-supply-in-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/02\/fg-to-prioritise-water-supply-in-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to Prioritise Water Supply in Rural Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has announced plans to prioritise the provision of clean and safe water to rural communities across Nigeria, in a renewed drive to close persistent gaps in water access.<\/p>\n<p>The move, disclosed on Tuesday, comes amid concerns that millions of Nigerians, particularly in rural areas, still lack potable water despite years of intervention programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates show that more than 110 million people in the country rely on unsafe sources.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the new priority will build on existing schemes such as the Partnership for Expanded Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (PEWASH) and the World Bank-assisted Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (SURWASH).<\/p>\n<p>While these initiatives were designed to improve nationwide access, implementation has been hampered by inadequate funding, weak monitoring, and limited state-level commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The government linked its renewed focus to the National Action Plan for Revitalising the WASH Sector, launched in 2018, which sets out a 13-year roadmap toward universal water access by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>It also reaffirmed support for complementary campaigns such as \u201cClean Nigeria: Use the Toilet,\u201d aimed at curbing open defecation and improving sanitation in underserved communities.<\/p>\n<p>Stakeholders welcomed the announcement but cautioned that meaningful progress would depend on stronger collaboration between federal and state governments, alongside adequate financing and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; The Federal Government has announced plans to prioritise the provision of clean and safe water to rural communities across Nigeria, in a renewed drive to close persistent gaps in water access. The move, disclosed on Tuesday, comes amid concerns that millions of Nigerians, particularly in rural areas, still lack potable water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74781,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779\/revisions\/74781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}