Value of Water in Nigeria viz a viz the Opportunity Costs
to Women, Youth and Children in Nigeria
to Women, Youth and Children in Nigeria
- Valuing Principle: recognize benefits/costs from multiple perspectives. i.e. water may be life to some but a vehicle of disease and death to too many others.
- The value of water is the opportunity cost of the absence of water such as
- 19 years of productive life lost for youth from 15 – 49 years
- 16 million school days lost/year from diarrhoea episodes
- 4.9 billion hours of productive hours lost for women without access to water supply within 30 minutes walking distance