Water scarcity: Ibadan residents decry activities of borehole owners

SOME house owners in Ibadan metropolis are cashing in on water scarcity to construct boreholes and make fortune from it. This new thriving business, Community News learnt, is biting hard into residents' pockets as some borehole owners charge as high as N50 per 25 litres of keg.A resident of Kudeti area whose house is close to Saint David Catholic School, but who didn't want his name in print, lamented that all the wells in the area had dried up, saying, 'We can't have access to clean water and I learnt that producers of statchet water may jack up the price of their product anytime from noe.'Mr Seyi Akintade, a shop owner at Boluwaji on the outskirts of the city, rhetorically asked. 'There is no electricity, no pipe borne water, what exactly is going on' 'What is fetching people money now is water business, the water corporation needs to help end the water scarcity in the city, we are tired of trekking miles searching for drinkable and clean water.' He also lamented that the scarcity of tap water in the communities could trigger water borne diseases because the people must, of necessity, look for water to do domestic washing and to drink.According to Mrs Foluke Alade, who accused the state water corporation of being lackadaisical to their plight, allowing people with boreholes in their houses to exploit them because of the scarcity of water.She however, begged the state government to help prevail on the organ of government saddled with the responsibility of distributing water to the residents of Ibadan to ameliorate their sufferings, just as she complained of the people spending too much on water.
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