Death of potable public water supply in Esan-land and it's attendant effect.

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Safe and readily available water is important for public health, whether it is used for drinking, domestic use, food production or recreational purposes. Improved water supply, sanitation, and better management of water resources, can boost economic growth and can also contribute greatly to poverty reduction.

In 2010, the UN General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation. Everyone has the right to sufficient, continuous, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic use.

Lack of sustainable access to potable public water system leads to high risk of infections. In some cases, the unclean water infection manifest immediately, while, in other cases it create a breeding fertile ground for other ailments to fertilize in the victims body.

As someone, who lost his only sister to unclean water complications, I'm passionate and determined to fix the lack of sustainable access to hygiene public water system, by the vast majority of Esan people.

Growing up as a kid in a poor rural community  called Udomi of Uwesan in Esan Central LGA. In search for a drinkable water source on daily basis, I used to walk miles to neighboring communities to fetch water from a relatively safe and manageable public water supply system, through a public water tap, that was reticulated from Ugbalo river. Howbeit, years later, the system collapsed.

But, the salient questions are:

What really happened to Ugbalo water reticulation system? Did the river dry up?

Why is that, twenty-three (23) years into this democratic dispensation, despite having array of elected and government appointed representatives, the vast majority of Esan people are still grappling with the menace of lack of sustainable access to potable public water supply in the 21st century?

Of course, the solution is not a rocket science! It only takes the right investment and the right machinery, followed by appropriate and adequate political will, to fix the lack of access to sustainable public water system in Esan-land!

If am given the opportunity by my dear Esan brothers and sisters to represent Esan-land, in the 10th National Assembly, at the Upper Chamber, fixing the lack of hygiene public portable water supply menace in Esan-land will be one of my topmost priorities.

*My name is Monday Okpebholo, popularly known as "Akpakomiza."*

I am running for the office of the *Senate,* Edo Central Senatorial District (Esan-land).