This is rather pitiful.

Vanguard recently paid a visit to Taran and Gaukaka-Lasauya communities of Bauchi State for the instance of the leadership of WaterAid Nigeria, a civil society organisation, CSO, and it was discovered that in these rural communities were men, pregnant women, youth and children whose appearance evoked sympathy.

According to the report, in Taran community, there was only one source of water for the villagers and animals to drink from. For the villagers, it’s a choice-less situation; it’s the only way of staying alive; it didn’t matter if water borne diseases become their constant ailment.

“We drink water from the same source with our goats. When we get to the stream to fetch water and discover that goats have come ahead of us to drink, what we do is to fetch the surface that we believe the mouths of the goats touched and pour it away, then proceed to fetch our own,” said Rahal Bitrus, one of the women in Taran.

“We don’t have any other source of water. We just reduce the surface and fetch our drinking water even though we know there are consequences, but we are left with no option.

The water sometimes gives us and our children diarrhea and typhoid fever and very painful urine, but we still go ahead and drink it to stay alive.

We trek about nine kilometers to get to the river to fetch the water we are talking about, and, of course, it is affecting our lives, economy and even our children’s education.

This lack of water affects our economy in the sense that we have to look for water before going to the market and, by the time you go and come back, on getting to the market, some transactions would have been made which you must have missed and sometimes we end up not going to the market because we must have been late and prospective customers gone home.”
If you as much as drink tap water in your house, be grateful.

http://ynaija.com/welcome-village-drink-water-goats-photo/

For real? Sometimes when you think things are so bad and your situation is so worse, you suddenly have reasons to be grateful and thankful.
But this is purely the responsibility of the government and, they have failed woefully in that regards.
And before we would put the greater blame on the federal government, we should know this is purely a preserve of the government at the local level; because this is a grassroot problem and that's what they are created for. The government, their representatives both at the state and federal houses of assemby and even the state government FAILED THEM! EPIC FAIL!
Quite a shame!

Cool

Seriously, what is the point having L.G chairman?

[size=15pt]H[/size]2[size=15pt]O[/size] is .....

Not only is it pitiable, it is uncalled-for, unheard-of and unthinkable.




Gosh!!!



I hope the govt of the day will look into their plight and do something about it WITHOUT USING IT TO CAMPAIGN... IT IS THEIR RIGHT.

Choi

We wait for Change!

Change

No condition is permanent

and one murrafvcka fills a 5ftH by 20ft L tank with water juss to swim

Na wa ooo

Hmmmmm......may God help us o.

This is the evil PDP has caused.



I'm kidding o before they crucify me.

So sad. A culture they've choicelessly had to adopt cos of inadequate supply of water.
I pray God helps them and provide for them better and clean water even if our polticians don't really cvare.

Naija we de

I guess those people don't have poling centres
Or maybe they even have more than required


But no water


Ok oooo

Animal Kingdom

Change on point

Ewwww...sumtin shld b done abt dis asap

wetin them still dey do for the yeye village na make them pack na

Disgusting well im nt suprise bcaus civilization has nt really reached everywhere.

Same with benue

Elslim:
Change on point

You are right! The pipe borne water provided to them by Buhari (early 80'), Obj (1999 - 2007) and briefly my Yaradua's administration was destroyed by GEJ's administration. Buhar ( 2015 - ) has come to fix it (change).

All hail the might general.

So you're telling me that the leadership of the community could not instruct their young men to dig a bore hole, well, or shallow reservoir in their community? Nobody can make those earthenware pots of old days? Nobody can make a simple sand filter? These are technologies from 1000 years ago and still nobody has bothered to do so in their own community?

The real shame is that people have adopted this "government must help us because we stopped being able to do anything for ourselves" attitude.

Elslim:
Change on point

Where is the sense in what you wrote?

It's so crude. I can't put a thought to it. Governance shouldn't be for urban areas alone. At least a bore hole would solve the issue. Really angry. #change should happen to them too. Pathetic

Bad.

[color=][/color][color=][/color]Kristonal say dat cee u

Na lie jor