Locals plug leaks as Nigeria’s supply woes continue

Business Day Live - IT IS 8am as Hassan Abdullahi lugs his handcart loaded with six jerrycans of water up the slope to God’s Grace Calabar Kitchen. This is his third trip from a private water tap to his major customer.

TRANSNATIONAL Institute, a Netherlands-based research group, expects the global trend of privatising water to end. In the past 15 years, more than 180 cities and communities in 35 countries have taken back control of water services due to disappointing levels of investment and tariff hikes, a November report said.

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