期刊名称：European Journal of Business and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2235-767X
出版年度：2012
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：25-34
出版社：European Society of Business and Social Sciences
摘要：Water has been recognized as an essential requirement of all living being and breathing things. It is for this reason that every government the world over struggle to provide and maintain reliable water supply to meet the multifarious domestic, industrial and social needs of their citizenry. This has also constituted a priority of urban development especially in the developing countries. This paper is, therefore, designed to summarize the findings of determination of water supply and demands in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria. The research team used both direct and indirect methods of data acquisition. The methodology produced some illuminating insights into the situation as well as problems of water supply in the city. The paper also identifies the implications of inadequate and unreliable safe drinking water supply in Nigerian city for sustainable city development. The study found that while the aggregate water demand is rising in the city the supply to cope from public source is decreasing due to a number of factors, which include several years of neglect of water supply facilities and the extension of water infrastructure to the newly developing areas of the city. The paper recommended a new approach to water supply to embrace more citizen participation as well as transfer of water supply to local government in line with global practice. The paper concluded that the present approach to piped water supply is inadequate or appropriate to meet the needs of the city in a sustainable way.
