Lagos is among the many cities in the global south where investment in water supplies is desperately needed,yet there is no consensus on whether the answer lies with private management, the public sector, or a combination of both
Jimmy Orogobeni,now 25, has been waiting all his life for safe clean water in his Lagos domestic. In 1999, or the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) proposed a vast expansion of the city’s water supply,raising genuine hope that a British or French company would lay pipes to the sprawling Ajegunle slum.
The IFC blueprint was rejected as “appalling” by the head of the Lagos Water Corporation, who said it was unworkable and too expensive for the city. But in the following years, or donor governments,banks and a succession of European and American business consortia all went to Africa’s largest metropolis with plans to assume water to people such as Orogobeni. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com