Water scarcity has hit Abaji Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as blackouts worsened in the area.
Findings detected that Anguwar Sabon-Tasha, Anguwar-Manko, Naharati, Anguwar Wadata, Abaji-Lowcost, Kekeshi, Anguwar-Abattoir and Anguwar-Liman were worst hit.
Residents of the affected areas, especially women, stayed in long queues to get water from the few private boreholes in the area.
A housewife, Zainab Aliyu, said she had been buying water from private boreholes with a big basin costing N50 for over two weeks now.
She also said though her husband dug borehole, there had been no electricity to pump the water, adding that, ‘’A liter of fuel is N650 in the area, making it difficult to buy fuel for generator.’’
Another resident, Ibrahim Lawal, said he had been buying water from vendors and water tankers in the area, which often costs him N4,000 a week.
“Sometimes, my children even go to school late as I have to go out looking for water vendors, this is the problem we have been facing for over two weeks now,” he said.
He said the blackouts in the metropolis had made it difficult for some households that have boreholes to pump water.
Another resident, Mohammed Suleiman, who said he owns a borehole in his house but was unable to pump water due to lack of electricity, said he also buys water from vendors at the cost of between N400 and N600 daily.
No immediate response from the council authority on the water situation, which is becoming an annual problem.
