The Director,Federal Capital Territory Water Board, Mr Jibrin Ibrahim, has said the board is rationing water supply because the treatment plant supplying the city is yet to be completed.
Ibrahim told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
that necessary actions had been taken to connect water from the Gurara water point to the treatment plant.
He said that normal supply of water would be restored as soon as work was completed on the pipeline connection, which he said would take more than two months.
He said: “we have a programme now; the rationing programme, since water is not enough as a result of the treatment plant which has not been completed.
“Since the water is not enough, we are serving water by gravity, gravity flow means that the water will flow through the topography and there are some places that are low and there are those at high level.
“If you open it like that, the people at the low level will get water all the time and the people at high level will not get; so in order to make sure the water is available for everybody, we ration it.
He decried the refusal or reluctance of many FCT residents to pay their water rates and advised them to turn a new leaf.
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