UMUAHIA A SYNONYM FOR POOR WATER SUPPLY

I spent most of my life in the west and what I experienced there is practically different from what am experiencing now in the east. In the west I was surrounded by borehole water, well water, tap water, water from the corporation and more. Despite all these the people are yet to be satisfied, always complaining and blaming the government for not still doing enough to provide drinkable water for the people in the region but now I have every course to praise and adore the government and the people of the west for doing the little they could to provide water for the people.

The experience in Umuahia is not different from the experience of our great grandfather who fetched water from the streams, rivers etc metres away from their homes. This is what I`m experiencing here in Umuahia, fetching water metres away from my house.

Water is a very essential and important commodity which has no enemy and one of the few indispensable elements of life that should be readily available and easily accessible has become so hard to get as gold is hard to mine and become so scarce as an hen`s teeth. The state capital of Abia is the very first place in my life that I have seen a very long queue as long as vehicles seen in filling station during fuel scarcity in my country; Nigeria waiting to buy fuel.

Who is to be blamed? Both the government and the people are to be blamed. The government because she has done enough to provide water for the people of the region either through water corporation or through digging of boreholes or through any other means and the people because on their part they should have dug wells in their compound from which they can get water which can be used for other purposes other drinking but they didn’t do it.

The solution therefore is that both the government and the people must start something quickly before the situation grow worst the government should dig bore holes randomly in the region, revitalized the water corporation and people should dig wells in their compound from which they can get water. It is until then that the title of this article can be a story of the past.