An Assessment of Alternative Water Sources for Domestic used in Minna Metropolis, Niger State

Abstract

Making freshwater available in urban centre are major challenge to be faced in 21st century globally population growth and industrialization have put a lot of pressure on water resources the world over. Minna, the capacity city of Niger State Nigeria, has witnessed population growth due to the influx of people from the various regions to seek greener pastures. The population growths have resulted in an inadequate water supply to the populace by conventional means. These problems result in an individual effort to meet their daily water demand. To explore this problem, structured questionnaire were distributed to two hundred households purposively selected from six areas in the town and semi-structured interviews were administered on five water analyst, Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze the data collected to ministry of water resources is the major problem hindering water availability in Minna. The three alternative source of water supply for domestic use identified were well water, water from vendors and boreholes. Consequently increase in resource allocation to the ministry of water resources in a way of policy