KADUNA, JULY 26, 2016 – Kaduna State Government says it will spend over N1.4 billion to rehabilitate seven water treatment plants cross the state, to boost water supply.The Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Lere disclose this while addressing journalists on Tuesday in Kaduna on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting.
He said the council has approved the immediate commencement of work on the seven water treatment plants.
Lere said that the project would be conducted in phases, with the first phase involving the plants located in Saminaka, Kafanchan, Manchok and Kagoro.
“The second phase will be followed by the three plants within Kaduna metropolis.
“These include the Malali old treatment plant, the Kaduna South plant which has 27 million litres daily capacity and the plant in Kaduna North, also situated at Malali with 150 million litre per day capacity.”
According to the commissioner, the objective of the project is to restore the treatment plants back to their optimum capacity.
“Prior to now, I have made pronouncements on the deplorable condition of the plants and the fact that they have not been able to produce optimal quantity of the potable water that they were designed to produce.
“The essence of the rehabilitation work is to bring them up to their designed capacity, to increase and enhance the quantity of potable water to residents,” he said.
Lere disclosed that the government had also signed a contract for the supply of operational vehicles for the state water corporation.
He said that 45 Toyota Hilux vehicles and 203 motorcycles would be supplied at the cost of N800 million.
According to him, funding for the projects, which also involves supply of heavy duty vehicles, was gotten from African Development Bank.
