Yemi Olakitan
Phase one of the Damaturu Water Project would
generate and distribute 27 million litres of water
every day, according to Yobe State Commissioner
for Water Resources Alkali Jajere.
Jajere stated that the project, being funded by the
Federal Government, should be completed in April
while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
in Damaturu.
According to him, the project involved building
three work stations with a combined daily
production capacity of 27 million litres of water. The
three stations in the Sunsumma, Nayinawa, and
Mallamatari localities, according to Jajere, have
already been finished.
The Federal Government approved the project,
which will cost N6.4 billion, with a 24-month
completion window starting in April 2020.
It consists of three locations; each location has ten
industrial boreholes that are powered by solar
panels, generators, and the local power grid.
The commissioner stated that each of the locations
has the ability to produce 9 million litres of water
per day. He said that the stations had already
pumped more than 6 million litres of water into a
subterranean storage facility at the state Water
Corporation Agency.
He stated that the agency was building an overhead
tank that could hold up to three million litres of
water.
The commissioner said the state, for its part, had
already paid for the recently finished reticulation of
the entire Damaturu and its surroundings.
He said that the initial project contract had been
terminated in the past but had been brought back
to life thanks to the efforts of Governor Mai Mala
Buni soon after he took office.
With an ever-growing population, Jajere claimed
that the project’s completion would address water
problems in the majority of the sahelian state.
Regarding the second phase of the project, the
commissioner declared that the state intended to
expand it by building a dam at Damagum.
He stated that many communities in, among other
towns, Buni Gari, Babbangida, Kukareta, and
Ngelzarma will be included in the reticulation
exercise after the dam was completed.