PIA: Prioritize investment in safe, sustainable drinking water – Okoritak community urges HCDTs in Akwa Ibom

One of the oil-rich communities successful Akwa Ibom State, Okoritak, successful Ibeno Local Government Area, has appealed to the Host Community Development Trusts (HCDTs) operating wrong the assembly to prioritise concern successful harmless and sustainable drinking h2o arsenic a mode of improving nationalist health, livelihoods, and the wide well-being of residents.

The entreaty was made during a stakeholders’ roundtable connected “Sustainable Development successful Okoritak Community,” organised by the enactment of the assemblage successful concern with the Clement Isong Foundation (CIF) and the Ibeno Youth Advocacy Network, IYAN.

Okoritak Community has been battling a longstanding h2o challenge.

In a communiqué issued astatine the extremity of the roundtable, the assemblage called connected the Akwa Ibom State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (AKRUWATSAN), applicable ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), and HCDTs to fortify collaboration and grow entree to sustainable agrarian h2o infrastructure and different indispensable societal services successful underserved communities.

The participants applauded the committedness of the Seplat Host Community Development Trust to reappraisal its improvement priorities and see Okoritak Community for aboriginal potable h2o interventions pursuing confirmation that the community’s water...