Nigeria: Minister Laments Controversies Over Proposed Water Resources Bill

4 December 2020

Abuja — The Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu, has attributed the controversies over the proposed National Water Resources Bill to lack of proper understanding of its contents and merits by some stakeholders.

Adamu, who drew the attention of stakeholders in the Water sector to the importance of the proposed bill in his opening remark at the 27th Regular Meeting of the National Council on Water Resources in Abuja, said: "The debate over the bill comes against the backdrop of a situation where the country's health is being undermined by unsafe drinking water, its agriculture battling with under production, threatening our national food security while the sources of water supply have been subjected to much abuse with the attendant threat on the environment.

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