In Sanni-Otin community in Odo-Otin Local government area of the state, some 32 kilometres from Oke Ila, the story was no different.
The water scarcity in the state was not limited to Ifedayo and Odo-Otin local government areas creating an active emergency.
A Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Specialist with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Mr Moustapha Niang said 57 million Nigerians do not have access to safe water supply and that more than half of these numbers live in rural areas.
“Water scarcity was making life difficult in this community.
Mrs Asimotu Jolayemi, a petty trader, also lives in the community.
Prior to that, the state government provided water through the state water corporation.
But this was not enough to go around the state.
The General Manager of the Osun Rural Water and Environmental Sanitation Agency (RUWESA), Mr Adiatu Olaposi said 480 hand pumps and solar boreholes have been provided in the communities in Odo-Otin, Ifedayo and Ayedaade Local Government Areas and 129 others are ongoing and that the projects would provide portable water for about 60,000 people in the state.
Found at the foot of a borehole pumping water into her container, Mrs Idowu said she and her family had been considering leaving the community before the intervention.
“Unlike before, I’m not wasting time going to the stream to fetch water again.