It was an era of a new dawn for the people of Oke-Ola area Apomu, in Isokan Local Government Area of Osun State as the area got borehole and toilet facility that increased their access to clean water and improved sanitation respectively.
Water is life as no living organism can survive in perpetual absence of water. For a long time, the people of Oke-Ola area had to struggle daily to get access to edible water for their domestic needs. Every morning, children and adults mostly female are seen on the street under the heavy bowl of water either coming from a stream or surface well where they went to scope water for their daily water needs. The source of the water in most cases are not edible for consumption. The women and the girls have no option because that is what is available to them. Thereby exposing them to water related diseases and eventually loss of not enough economic resources in treatment of corresponding ailment.
According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), water insecurity is one of the major root causes of poverty as over 2 billion people in the world currently lack access to clean water. This therefore beam more light on the significance of water security in attainment of UN Sustainable Development Goal 1—No poverty in our local communities. Without accessible water source in close proximities, rural dwellers will keep spending their valuable scarce economic resources to get water from the available sources. For the people of Oke-Ola area, they are now confident that their struggle for clean water over the years is now over.
Clean water source for the Oke-Ola community in Apomu
Meanwhile, the area also got a two room toilet facility which will improve the sanitation in the area. Before now, open defecation is the norm in the area which pollutes the environment and also make the dwellers at risk of infectious diseases. With the construction of the toilet facility, open defecation will reduced drastically and the area will have sane environment.
