“Recent estimate based on the SDG criterial of safely managed water suggests that about 93% of Liberia’s rural residents don’t have access to enough clean water for domestic use.
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Try … Squarespace Learn more According to him, the problem in Liberia is compounded by a number of structural problems both in terms of governance and resources mobilization.
The Public Works Assistant Minister also attributed challenges facing the WASH sector to low skilled and under resourced government employees who, he intimated continue to be plagued with the problem of low service delivery output leading to ineffective WASH services.
Consequently, the Public Works Official said, WASH infrastructures’ construction and its attending software activities in Liberia have been the subject of growing attention, describing it as the most fragile part of public goods provided in Liberia.
He also lamented that low funding to the Liberian WASH sector has generally undermined the aspiration of plans needed to realize the goals of ensuring sanitation and hygiene activities are skilled up beyond fragmented and incoherent implementation.
Minister Chesson noted that there is low government allocation for Liberia WASH sector, thus leading to donor and NGOS dominance which, he noted sometimes leads to unachievable government planned priorities.
On the global scene, the CDC official disclosed that more than 700 million people (10%) of the global population lack access to safe drinking water exposing them to the risk of “unpredictable” ineffectual diseases and premature death.
That is why, he added, it is more than necessary to join others around the global to observe world water day on March 22 each year so as to occupy the consciousness of the world about the water crisis facing people who are left behind.
“663 million people don’t have access to safe managed water source not to talk of improved infrastructures close to their homes, unlike few, most people around the world must spend complex hours in Queue waiting to get what he referred to as the precious resource (water).