Water Scarcity

Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health Children carrying jerrycans while searching for water before school in Kano.

Children carrying jerrycans while searching for water before school in Kano.

Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health

Hussaini Ibrahim May 25, 2026

KANO, Nigeria — Before sunrise each day across Kano metropolis, thousands of children begin exhausting journeys not...

When the Taps Run Dry: Inside Abuja’s Quiet Water Emergency Lower Usuma Dam, a major water source for Abuja

Lower Usuma Dam, a major water source for Abuja

When the Taps Run Dry: Inside Abuja’s Quiet Water Emergency

Oluwatobi Adu February 17, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – On a warm afternoon in Kpana village, Jabi, Mrs. Blessing waits patiently beside her...