Ekiti State Government has inaugurated Inter-Ministerial Committee to finding lasting solutions to issues relating to water resources management and its attendant challenges in the state.

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By Funke OYERINDE
Ekiti State Government has inaugurated a twenty-one-member Inter-Ministerial Committee saddled with the responsibility to find lasting solutions to issues relating to water resources management and its attendant challenges in the state.

Addressing the members of the committee named "Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Committee" during its inauguration in Ado-Ekiti, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Infrastructure and Public Utilities
(IPU), Professor Mobolaji Aluko urged members of the committee to work
in synergy in order to find lasting solutions to the outlined age-long
issues.

Aluko explained that Ekiti was endowed with rivers, water schemes and water dams, such as Egbe, Ero, Ureje and Itapaji that were capable of providing regular clean and potable water to all parts of the State as well as serving as a veritable source of revenue to the government in
the areas of agriculture, transportation and recreation.

 Highlighting the terms of reference for the constitution of the committee to include developing a workable framework for flooding and erosion control, the allocation and distribution of potable water among all users , as well as preventing water pollution in the State. Prof. Aluko raised alarm over the reducing water and increasing turbidity levels of Ureje Dam in Ado which are undoubtedly related to waste and dredging activities in tributaries feeding it.

He urged representatives of Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the committee to identify problems in the sector and come up with workable solutions, including looking into all the state water- and water-shed-related laws with a view towards reconciling them.

He reminded those who were present of the warning forecast issued by the relevant National Weather Monitoring and Emergency Management Agencies about this year’s rainfall and flooding expectations, particularly in Ekiti state, calling on the people to support the government at bringing the expected flood disaster to a minimal level.

 Aluko thereby advised the committee to assign sub-technical committees to work on erosion control in order to avert flooding in the state this year, as well as on other issues as are periodically identified.

In his remarks , the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Infrastructure Public Utilities who is also the Secretary of the Committee, Engr. Olumide Ajayi, assured that the committee would soon come up with workable policies, sensitization and awareness programmes that would address the technicality aspects of water resources management and prevention of water pollution in the state.

He expressed appreciation to all the Permanent Secretaries, Executives Secretaries, General Manager, and the Managing Director of the State Water and Sewage Company for their cooperation and thereby sought for their further support towards achieving the IWRM international and global standard practices

The 21-man IWRM committee was set up under Executive mandate.

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