FG Renews MoU with Capacity Builders to Boost Water Supply
Yemi Akinsuyi The federal government has renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Water Resources Capacity Building Network (NCWRBCNET) to boost water supply in the country.
It said this would help reposition the water sector for effective service delivery to consumers, even as it reiterated its commitment to providing required support to achieve this mandate.
The Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe, in Abuja yesterday at the signing of the MoU with the National Water Resources Institute and the six partnering universities, disclosed that through the Capacity Building Centres, programmes on integrated water resources management could now be held to the maximum educational level.
She said: “For us as a nation, we need to strengthen the management of our water resources by using an integrated approach. This is why I am glad that through the water resources capacity building centres, academic programmes up to Master’s Degree level on integrated water resources management in addition to their other capacity building courses will be taken.
“My dream for our water sector is to have adequate capacity for the equitable, beneficial, efficient and sustainable management and use of our nation’s surface and groundwater resources.”
Earlier, Executive Director of National Water Resources Institute (NWRI), Kaduna, Dr. Olusanjo Bamgboye, had disclosed that the network is currently operating through the capacity building centre at six federal universities from the geo-political zones in the country.
According to him, the maiden MoU jointly signed by NWRI and participating universities ran for a period of three years, adding that a decision to renew this was born out of a need to achieve the purpose for creating the network.