Research & news
Policy notes, engineering write-ups, and field lessons from the HydroReach team and partners.
The city's name means "under the rock", and that geology is not just poetic. Hard basement rock across much of the city shapes what water infrastructure can realistically be built, and at what cost.
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Across much of Nigeria's aging urban water systems, a significant share of treated water is lost between the plant and the tap. In Ogun State, that loss is not an anomaly, it is the norm, and it quietly bankrupts the utilities meant to serve people.
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Colour and clarity are poor proxies for safety. Industrial activity, thin soil filtration, and shallow aquifer contamination in parts of Ogun State mean groundwater quality cannot be assumed, it must be tested.
6 min readSome of the state's most significant water infrastructure was designed with a different beneficiary in mind. Understanding who water systems actually serve, and who they don't, is the first step toward fixing access gaps.
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As people move outward from Lagos into Mowe, Ibafo, and Sagamu, they settle in areas where water infrastructure was never planned. Demand is outrunning design, and the gap is growing faster than the pipe network.
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One of Nigeria's densest manufacturing corridors runs through Ogun State. Behind the factory gates, most plants are drilling their own boreholes, drawing from shared aquifers with no coordinated oversight.
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In 2010, Lagos set out a 10-year plan to close its water supply deficit. Five years after the plan expired, installed capacity has barely moved, and demand has only grown.
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Across Lagos, boreholes have become the default response to failed public water supply. But in dense urban areas, the groundwater beneath millions of homes is compromised in ways that are not visible.
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