water’s like electricity in Calabar: No service, huge bills

In Anatigha, Calabar South Local Government Area that used to enjoy 24-hour water supply from CRSWB, water hardly flow from their taps anymore. For them, the PPP is an unmitigated disaster. Inhabitants, especially at 4 Miles, 8 Miles, Ikot Ansa, part of Federal Housing, Ikot Ishie, and State Housing where the governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, resides, all suffer from this inefficiency of CRSWB.
At Mount Zion, Atimbo, Chamley, Mbukpa, Afokang and other parts of Calabar South, the water comes once in two weeks— when it does come at all. This has forced many of CRSWB customers to stop paying bills.
Enter private borehole owners
Following the failure of CRSWB, private borehole owners, who charge exorbitant rates, have taken over water supply business in the state. However, the concern is not just the supply by private borehole owners, but the quality of water they supply, knowing that unclean water is the source of typhoid fever, cholera and other killer diseases.  Bemoaning the inefficiency of the state water board, Mr. Asuquo Effanga, a resident at Yellow Duke, off Mount Zion, told Niger Delta Voice it was better  for him to buy water from private borehole owners than wait for CRSTWB for his daily water supply.
He said: “I can count how many times they have given us water this year. Yet they still bring high bills for us to pay when we do not even see the water. “Water is highly essential. It is not like electricity that you that you can get from generating set. It is natural, and it is life. “We prefer to buy water from these people even though it is more expensive. I spend up to N1,500 weekly, but you are rest assured that water is available for use. But we are appealing to government to fix whatever the problem is so that people can have water 24 hours every day

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