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World Bank To Boost Nigeria’s Water Supply With $700m
The World Bank has approved $700 million credit for the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programme. The credit, from the International Development Association, is to ensure that six million people can access basic drinking water services and 1.4 million people can access improved sanitation services. The SURWASH programme, which would…
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26 Million Or More Nigerian Children Lack Access to Water- UNICEF
UNICEF has said that more than 1.42 billion people, live in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability in the world and one-third of Nigerian children do not have access to enough water. The agency’s statistics revealed that 26.5 million Nigerian children (29 percent) of the nation’s children are “experiencing high or extremely high…