{"id":30497,"date":"2020-09-28T20:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30497"},"modified":"2020-09-28T20:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T20:06:26","slug":"katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years","title":{"rendered":"Katsina spends N18.80bn on water projects in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katsina State Government has spent the sum of N18,798,640,116. 83 on the provision of potable drinking water in urban areas of the state since the inception of the administration of Gov. Aminu Masari in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The State Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Musa Funtua, disclosed this during the weekly media briefing with members of the Correspondents Chapel of the State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Katsina on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Funtua stated that before the inception of the Masari administration, the water supply sector was incapacitated, hence the need for its resuscitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn inception of the Masari administration, only Dutsinma and Funtua Urban District Water Supply Schemes were functioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Semi-Urban and Rural Water sectors were largely neglected which hardly met the water needs of the people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the government swung into action and awarded contracts for the resuscitation of the Urban and Semi-Urban Water Supply Scheme to meet the needs of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to that, Water Supply Operations and Production commenced in Zobe Regional Water Supply Scheme, which was handed over to the state by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scheme covers Katsina metropolis and Dutsinma town to meet the people\u2019s water needs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katsina State Government has spent the sum of N18,798,640,116. 83 on the provision of potable drinking water in urban areas of the state since the inception of the administration of Gov. 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The State Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Musa Funtua, disclosed this during the weekly media briefing with members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":30500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1130],"class_list":["post-30497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-katsina-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Katsina spends N18.80bn on water projects in five years - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Katsina State Government has spent the sum of N18,798,640,116. 83 on the provision of potable drinking water in urban\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Katsina spends N18.80bn on water projects in five years\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Katsina State Government has spent the sum of N18,798,640,116. 83 on the provision of potable drinking water in urban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-28T20:06:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/09\/03b02d84-katsina-state-map.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1167\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Katsina spends N18.80bn on water projects in five years\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-28T20:06:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years\"},\"wordCount\":213,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/09\/03b02d84-katsina-state-map.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Katsina State\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/katsina-spends-n18-80bn-on-water-projects-in-five-years\",\"name\":\"Katsina spends N18.80bn on water projects in five years - 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