Taraba Water Supply Agency has begun the enumeration of over 66,000 households across five local government areas in the state to build customer database for effective and efficient service delivery.
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The general manager of the agency, Musa Siam who disclosed this in Jalingo on Tuesday, said that over 90 enumerators had been engaged for the first phase of the exercise which covers Jalingo, Wukari, Ibi, Takum and Gembu towns.
Siam said the exercise was aimed at “identifying, revalidating and updating the present utility customer database of the agency for effective water supply service delivery and for future planning”.
He said that as a self-sustaining agency that would soon start surviving on the revenue it generates, a database of existing and prospective customers was important for effective operations.
According to him, due to security concerns, “the enumerators are drawn from the communities to avoid possible apprehension and fear of intrusion that could possibly put the lives of the people at risk”.
He called on the people to cooperate with the enumerators and provide necessary information to help the agency serve the people better and to address other critical issues of sanitation and hygiene in the state.
The exercise which is with support from the USAID Effective Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services (E-WASH) programme will run for six weeks.
