AN APPRAISAL OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS FOR PARTNERSHIP ARRANGEMENT IN LAFIA TOWN, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

As urban areas in Nigeria continue to grow, the need to meet increasing water demand for the population has become a major problem of concern to Urban Managers. The State water agencies who are supposed to provide adequate and potable water supply to urban population have records of poor performance and institutional challenges. To achieve the national and state water supply policy objectives major institutional reforms must be carried out in our water sectors to provide efficient and sustainable water supply for the urban needs. In view of this, the study first appraisal the existing public water supply system and conditions in Lafia town with population of 263,998. The survey investigation was based on a three-stage clustered sampling framework in which a sample of 500 households (representing 2.5% sample size of the 20,308 total households in Lafia) was drawn across the three Water Board area offices (Lafia East, Lafia North and Lafia West) forming about 12 neighbourhoods of the urb...