As power outage and epileptic supply bite across the country, residents of Awka and other communities within the State capital territory are lamenting the hardship they are going through in search of potable water for household use.
Some of them, who shared their experiences with our Correspondent, regretted that the drop in power supply across the country has worsened the impact of the current economic hardship on them.
One of them, Mrs Ifeoma Eke, who resides in Okpuno, decried the impact of the current situation on women and children who are saddled with the responsibility of fetching water for household use.
“We now need to leave everything we have to do to go and look for water anywhere we see it. In many places, you buy it, one Jerican for 50 naira.
“You can imagine the impact of the stress on every family. The children are out looking for water when they are expected to get busy with their home works,” Eke bemoaned.
A final year student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Amara Chukwudi, was full of frustrations over the situation which had made them to spend unnecessarily searching for water.
“I bathed this morning with sachet water. There was light and we could not find any means of pumping water in our hostel. Remember the price of petrol is equally unfriendly. Nigeria is fast becoming unhabitable”.
A mother of three, Mariam Zaidu, also shared a discomforting tale about the water challenge.
“More regrettably, this is happening at a time that heat is too much. My children could not sleep yesterday. At the same time, power supply had dropped drastically. We need urgent government intervention, honestly,” she concluded.
At the time of filing this report, some children were seen in one of the areas around Okpuno trekking distances to search for water.
