They revealed that they still depend on a single contaminated stream for drinking water despite repeated promises of potable water projects.
Residents of Urukpa Ezimo Community in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State — the hometown of the state's Deputy Governor, Mr Ifeanyi Ossai — have decried what they described as years of government neglect.
They revealed that they still depend on a single contaminated stream for drinking water despite repeated promises of potable water projects.
Photographic evidence SaharaReporters obtained on Tuesday from the community underscores the severe degradation of the ecosystem: in one of the pictures, the surface of the primary water pool is visibly clouded, dynamic with floating organic debris, and completely discolored by heavy silt runoff.
More pictures expose the physical reality on the ground as residents navigate a steep, slippery dirt trail thoroughly churned into deep mud by foot traffic and erosion to access a rudimentary concrete containment basin holding a heavily stagnant, brown, and muddy mixture that serves as the community's primary source of domestic water collection.
