Evaluation of water supply system Case study in Naka ... - ENGEES

Evaluation of water supply system – Case study in Naka, Nigeria7.2 Challenge aheadThe project of scaling up the WCA model with water kiosks in the 70 other smalltowns would benefit from waiting to gain experiences from these 3 pilots areas inorder to know if it is the best option and what are its strengths and weaknesses.Meanwhile, evaluation of water supply in these towns can be done and action taken inorder that the water infrastructure is ready (functioning fully and sustainable) to behanded to a consumer association or any other chosen organisation. Anyway,flexibility will be required as small towns have different features. One challenge ofthe WCA will be to deal with the inequity factors implied by member privileges.The water supply system in Naka required several measures before it could be handedover to the WCA and before it could be expanded. The challenge for the future, inNaka as in other water projects, will be to ensure sustainability while trying toincrease proportion of people getting access to safe water as targeted by theMillennium Development Goals. The following sentence clearly sums up the concernof focusing exclusively on improving coverage: “a sustained but small impact adds adrop to the ocean of need; an impact which fails to be sustained evaporates and islost” (Carter et al., 1999).Cranfield University at Silsoe 36 Florianne Bourrigault (2006)