Modelling Water-Sanitation Relationship In Edo State, Nigeria
Journal Title: Applied Science Reports - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
An effective understanding of water and sanitation supply in developing states such as Edo-state is a useful tool in addressing uneven distribution of these utilities. This research study focuses on the evaluation of water and sanitation supply in the state using baseline and demand responsiveness approaches to capture data on water and sanitation supplies in all the 18 local government areas in the state. The output of the analysis revealed that 62% representing 1,346, 649, population could not access portable water, while 38% corresponding to 813,199 could fairly access portable water in 1993. Coverage for safe drinking water between 1993 and 2002 in Edo-State is not significant at 95% confidence interval. In addition, 72% (2,009,566 population) did not have any access to sanitation; while 28% (777,210 population) had an average of 45-55% supply of sanitation. The regions with poor sanitation and water index are Etsako Central, Etsako West, Esan West, Esan North-West, while Oredo, Akoko- Edo, Egor and Owan East have improved sanitation and water index. The results obtained also indicate widespread of water and sanitation related diseases in the Edo State with the recorded highest cases of Schistosomaisis (134, 361:43%); Typhoid (81,981:27%); Cholera(62,191:20%) and Diarrhea (29,893:10%) respectively. Water harvesting is the major source of water supply in the Edo-state with 69.8% in Etsako West, 65.6% in Esan north East 65.5% in Etsako central while Oredo and Akoko-Edo had 5.9% and 4.3% respectively. Protected water supply from pipe borne water and borehole were noticeable in Oredo with 54.2%, 19.9% and Akoko-Edo with 5.2% and 6.0 respectively. The result on social sector expenditure shows that Water and Sanitation had least allocation of 18.4%, while Education, Health and Security had 23.5%, 37.0% and 21.1% allocation respectively. Having evaluated the analytical output of this research study, technically-based attention should be given to Water and Sanitation sector in Edo State in order position the region of meeting Millennium Development Goals of halving the problem of safe drinking Water and Sanitation supply by 2015.
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P. O Idogho, Olotu Yahaya, A. G Dagona
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