By Nneka Nwogwugwu
The Director-General, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Clement Onyeaso Nze, has said that about N2.67 trillion losses were incurred by the Federal Government and farmlands destroyed by flooding in 2021.
He added that sixty-nine people were drown by floods last year.
He made this known at the stakeholders’ Evaluation/Validation Workshop on the Flood Vulnerability Studies and Hydro-geological Mapping of Nigeria Project in Hydrological Area V1 (Western Littoral Project) report released by Mecon Geology and Engineering Services Limited in Lagos.
To reduce the destruction, he said the agency commissioned Mecon Geology and Engineering Services to carry out studies and flow regimes of major rivers.
He stated that this was aimed at identifying causes of flooding and measures for reducing flood incidence, as well as mapping out flood inundation areas across the country for better river basin planning and flood plain management.
Explaining that the project covered the Southwest and parts of Edo and Delta states, Nze noted that hydrogeological maps were important because they indicate flood vulnerability or flood plain by showing boundaries of catchment areas of lower category in the main river basin.
Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Tunji Bello, said the study would help in attaching importance to groundwater resources and the tools to handle them.
Source: TheNation
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