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Water’ll be scarce next year - Minister Minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, has alerted residents of the city and its environs to prepare for acute water shortages from mid-2005. el-Rufai announced this at the weekend in Abuja, citing “the influx of people to the city.” He said that whereas the volume of water in the FCT was planned for just 650,000 people, some two million people currently depended on it. According to the minister, “people should not blame the ministry for the acute shortage, as the past administrations in the city never planned for such huge influx of people.” The shortages might last for six months between June and December 2005, during which the ministry would work to expand the water scheme, he said. el-Rufai announced that his ministry was currently drawing the design for the expansion of the FCT water scheme. He said: “After due approval, work will start in earnest, to cushion the effects the shortages will have on the citizenry. “Part of the measures to cushion the effects would be to complete the Gurara Dam, which will complement the new water scheme,” he added. MORE.......

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