Jos – Plateau Government said it has concluded arrangement to provide mobile water treatment plants in rural areas across the state to boost provision of potable water.
Mr David Wuyep, Plateau Commissioner for Water Resources and Energy, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Monday.
He said that the state government would through the state ministry of Water resources and energy provide the mobile water treatment plants in the rural areas.
The commissioner said that the state government is taking the step to ensure that the cases of cholera and other water borne diseases are reduced to the barest, especially in the rural areas.
He said that the ministry has adopted a number of strategies toward providing potable water in the rural areas.
The commissioner said one of such strategies is the provision of small water schemes, mobile treatment plants and medium level treatment plants that would be used in treating the water for those in the rural areas.
“We have commenced the provision of small water schemes, mobile treatment plants and medium level treatment plants in the rural areas.
“The small water schemes and the medium level treatment plants would be sited at different locations preferably at the local government headquarters.
“Each of the plant will pump between 500 to 1500 cubic meters of water daily, “he said.
He said that the ministry is also working to extend reticulation from the central dams to reach more Local Governments around the dams.
According to the commissioner, this would go a long way to tackling the issue of none availability of potable water in such areas.
In addition to the mobile treatment plants, he said, the ministry would also ensure that each community in the local governments are provided with hand dug wells.
This, he said, was another strategy adopted for the provision of potable water.
Wuyep said that the health of the people in the state is very paramount to the government, hence, the decision to embark on these strategies.