The Federal Government, on Thursday said it has drilled 150 motorised boreholes to enhance access to safe drinking water in Adamawa State.
Alhaji Aminu Sambo, the Controller of Housing, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, announced this during an interaction newsmen, on Thursday, in Yola.
He said the government provided motorised boreholes designed with over-head tanks and discharge points in communities across the 21 local government areas of the state.
The gesture is aimed to address water shortages in the affected areas.
He said that the project was executed under a special intervention, initiated by the Federal Government in order to improve water supply and access to safe and clean water in the state.
The project, he said, targeted rural communities to ease the difficulties being experienced by rural dwellers in accessing clean water.
According to him, the government has also built 100 housing units and installed 780 units of solar powered streetlights in selected communities across the state.
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