As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to celebrate United Nations World Water Day, over 1.8 billon people across the world, especially in the Sub-Saharan African will experience acute water scarcity by the year 2025, Pauline and Wilson Foundation, PWF, has said.
PWF in statement in Lagos by its Programme Officer, Mr Peter Adoyi, to mark the day, said: “Water scarcity is already affecting every continent with more than 40 per cent of the people and two-thirds of the world’s population could be living under water stressed conditions.
He said: “The lack of water limits farmers’ ability to produce enough food to eat or earn a living. With population increase and economic growth, water demands for cities and for the industry are growing much faster than those of agriculture.”
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