Residents of Anguwar Garka in Garku community in Karu LGA of Nasarawa State have lamented lack of pipe-borne water in the community.
The residents told our correspondent on Thursday that the lack of potable water was a major problem of the community.
A resident explained that two boreholes that supplied water in the community had been grounded for several years without any sign from the government to repair them, hence their search for water from unhealthy sources.
A housewife, Mrs Salamatu Salisu, said, “Sometimes fights or quarrels break out among women over turns to fetch the water at the ponds.’’
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She added that since she got married in the community over eight years ago, the ponds had been the only source of water for the villagers, lamenting that cows and other animals also drink from the ponds.
The Ward Head of Anguwar Garka, Danlami Dogo, while speaking after he led our reporter to two ponds where his subjects scoop water from, said they now depended on water from the two ponds after the boreholes that supplied water in the community broke down.
He further said, “In fact, our women sometimes sleep at the ponds to get water as they have to dig and wait for water to gather before they fetch one after the other. And as you can see the colour of the water; that is how we have been drinking it. It is God that has been saving us from contracting water-borne diseases.”
He, therefore, appealed to the authorities of Karu LGA, state government and NGOs, as well as corporate organisations, to come to the aid of his people.
The Chairman of Karu LGA, James Thomas, did not pick calls or reply to a text message sent to him on the situation.
