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Water Infrastructure Development in Nigeria: Trend, Size, and Purpose

by
Adegboyega Adeniran
1,*,
Katherine A. Daniell
2 and
Jamie Pittock
1
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Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, 48 Linnaeus Way, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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Fenner School of Environment and Society & Institute for Water Futures, The Australian National University, 48 Linnaeus Way, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Water 2021, 13(17), 2416; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13172416
Submission received: 27 July 2021 / Revised: 24 August 2021 / Accepted: 27 August 2021 / Published: 2 September 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
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Abstract

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Water infrastructure development is key to attaining sustainable development, especially for water supply, sanitation and health, agricultural development, and energy production. However, sub-Saharan African countries face specific challenges around infrastructure financing, systemic and repeated malfunctioning, and decentralised infrastructure types. Using Nigeria as a case, this article aims to analyse historical water infrastructure development in Nigeria with a specific focus on dams and standpipes. Seven themes are discussed: infrastructure divisions; deprioritising water supply; political infrastructures; infrastructure failure and sustainability; infrastructure classification and typologies; optimal use of water resources and infrastructure; and a commentary on the future of water infrastructure development. The article concludes with policy and research suggestions for policymakers and other relevant stakeholders.

1. Introduction

There is a global consensus that water infrastructure development is key to attaining the sustainable development goals (SDGs) [1,2,3,4,5]. Specific targets in the SDGs related to water infrastructure include: achieving universal access to electricity and increasing renewable energy, improving number of population with safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene, providing efficient agricultural and flood control systems, and protecting water-related ecosystems [6]. Valuation of water infrastructure is an important step in ensuring that today’s hydraulic development is informed by past lessons to shape the future [7]. Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa more broadly, have specific needs in water supply, sanitation and health, agricultural development, and energy production [8,9,10,11]. However, sub-Saharan African countries face critical challenges around infrastructure financing [5,12,13], systemic and repeated malfunctioning [12], and decentralised infrastructure types [13]. The historical dimension to these issues in Nigeria [14,15], and the contributions made by international and multilateral organisations in Nigeria’s water infrastructure development through financing, policy and technology further complicates these issues [16,17]. Combining this history with Nigeria’s external relations places water infrastructure development within broader water governance and political governance frames.
Nigeria has consistently lagged in meeting her global water security commitments on health, agriculture, potable water supply, and environmental sustainability [18,19]. Although access to water has increased from 51 percent in 1990 to 68 percent in 2016, approximately 54 percent of rural and 78 percent of urban inhabitants currently have access. Demographic increases (rural–urban) continue to strain the sustainability of current progress, and service coverage may decline by the end of the Sustainable Development Goals [20,21]. At the local level, Nigeria’s population and high fertility rates mean it will be the third-most populous country in the world by 2050, after China and India [22]. Nigeria’s population increase will also mean more challenges related to water resources development. Only 15 percent of the 3.14 million hectares of potentially irrigable land is irrigated [23,24], yet Nigeria spent approximately US$22.5 billion on food imports in 2017 [25].
Accounting for these scenarios requires an evaluation of the current state of water infrastructure development in Nigeria. Thus, this article analyses historical water infrastructure development in Nigeria with a specific focus on dams and standpipes. This study contributes to the historical literature on water infrastructure development and provides practical policy and research ideas for government and non-government stakeholders engaged in water resources and infrastructure development. Specifically, the historical direction of water infrastructure development and the impact of policy and governance choices on spatial and infrastructural equities. Following this introduction, we present the materials and methods in Section 2, then briefly discuss Nigeria’s water governance and its position within sub-Saharan Africa in Section 3. Section 4 presents historical and spatial trends in dam ownership and development, dam size, and dam purpose for water resources development. These trends are discussed in Section 5 through seven themes: infrastructure divisions; deprioritising water supply; political infrastructures; infrastructure failure and sustainability; infrastructure classification and typologies; optimal use of water resources and infrastructure; and a commentary on the future of water infrastructure development. The article concludes with suggestions for policy and research for policymakers and other relevant stakeholders.

2. Materials and Methods

Data on dam development in Nigeria is synthesised and published for the first time. Secondary data used in this paper comes from Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Water Resources and the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). Dams and reservoir information contained in the Nigerian compendium of dams, the 1995 and 2014 national water resources masterplan were accessed, with 192 dams identified containing available data from 1923 to 2007 for analysis. Constructed dams in Nigeria are classified according to size: small, medium, and large [26], each having one or more purposes. In this article, water infrastructure refers to that constructed for agriculture, hydroelectric power, and potable water supply [27]. Data analysis was done using quantitative descriptive analysis on the completed dams’ dates, geolocation, and categories.
With study limitations, estimates of water resources availability may be inaccurate if based on published information about the existing and completed dams (reservoir capacity). The World Bank’s historical water-related metadata on Nigeria only accounts for five out of the over 1400 categories [28]. A few incomplete data for dam sizes, completion dates, owners, and purposes were noted where necessary.

3. Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa—A Short Description

Institutions, Legislations, and Policies in Nigeria’s Water Governance

Nigeria’s water infrastructure management is designed to address broad developmental problems expressed in the 2016 National water resources policy [27] (see Table A1). Nigeria operates a sectoral approach to water resources management, where different government ministries or parastatals coordinate water resource use and management issues. Administratively, Nigeria divides the country into eight hydrological areas. The Federal Ministry of Water Resources (FMWR) is responsible for the water sector as the institutional body mandated for water resources development (surface and groundwater), water supply and sanitation, irrigation, and drainage, and flood and erosion control. The FMWR discharges its duties through a few institutions such as the River Basin Development Authorities (henceforth, RBDAs), the Nigerian Integrated Water Resources Management Commission, the Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency, and the National Water Research Institute. The Federal Ministry of Environment manages environmental issues around water resources [29]. Several intersectoral and interagency issues arise due to functional misfits at various policy implementation levels. The development of Nigeria’s water governance-related legislation started as early as 1915, during the colonial era. Water infrastructure development in Nigeria is classified into three periods. First, the precolonial era before the official annexation of indigenous authorities and communities of all parts of present-day Nigeria in 1861. This date marks the beginning of the first colony to be administered by the British, the colony of Lagos. Second, the colonial era. Micheal Crowder, in his book, West Africa under Colonial Rule [19], proposes a timeline starting in 1885 and ending in 1945. However, this article extends the date to 1954, when self-government began for the regional governments. Officially, Nigeria became a country after the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates in 1914 by then Governor-General Lord Lugard. Hence, the colonial government referred to in this paper lasted 46 years from 1914 to 1960, when Nigeria gained political independence from Britain. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, the creation of the RBDAs in the 1970s marked the earliest post-independence attempt at developing a comprehensive and practical water policy framework in Nigeria [30,31,32]. The 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria [33] confers national-level water resources policy design and formulation on the federal government. It draws on the Water Resources Decree 101 of 1993, which vested the “rights and control of water in the federal government” [34].
Historically, Nigeria’s water policies have often targeted land, water quality, and environmental protection. The initial attempt to create a comprehensive nationwide water management strategy had begun in the early 1970s, but dwindling finances towards the end of the decade made it redundant [35]. Building on the 1992 national water resources masterplan, the 2014 national water resources master plan [23] was the first completed broad and long-term national water governance framework incorporating integrated water resources management (henceforth, IWRM) as a distinctive feature. IWRM equally underpinned the policy framework for the national water policy in 2000, the draft 2004 water policy [36], and the 2016 national water resources policy [27]. The water resources sub-sector development plan [37] designed to tackle cross-sectoral concerns failed to address other equally critical intrabasin challenges such as water/environmental pollution and forestry.
Transboundary surface water flows into Nigeria account for 24 per cent of Nigeria’s annual water resources potential (88 out of 324 BCM/year). River Niger, River Benue, and Lake Chad are the three major transnational surface water basins in Nigeria [37], with other small to medium-sized rivers along the 1975 km Nigeria–Cameroon border from the Cameroon-Adamawa mountains, such as the Katsina-Ala River [38], and the Ogun River in the southwest littoral zone. Nigeria’s representation in four international basin organisations (see Table A2) equally raises conceptual issues on the importance of transboundary hydropolitical relationships concerning water infrastructure development.
Beyond these challenges, sub-Saharan Africa hosts 33 out of 47 of the United Nations classification of least developing countries (LDCs) [39], each with specific political-economic conditions, political histories and infrastructure development. Three such countries surround Nigeria. Table 1 illustrates Nigeria’s position by comparing water-related sectors with some countries in Central Africa. Considering the scale of Nigeria’s human and natural resources and capabilities, improved water resources management in Nigeria can improve regional water infrastructure development in West and Central Africa. With the largest economy in Africa regarding nominal GDP [40], Nigeria is an influential leader in the West African subregion. As one of the regional economic communities of the African Union [41], it has several advantages over many of its neighbours.

4. Historical Development of Water Infrastructure

4.1. Precolonial Water Infrastructure Development

Water scarcity problems in precolonial Nigeria influenced the development of water infrastructure for agriculture or domestic purposes. Samuel Johnson described water scarcity in Ḱetu, an Òyó town as “a place badly watered, their drinking water being miles away from the town. The scarcity of water in Ketu has passed into a proverb. “Omi d’oyin ni Ḱetu (“water becomes honey in Ḱetu”) [42]. In addition to water scarcity, flooding, droughts, and poor water quality determined bulk water production and storage [43]. Large water storage systems consisting of deep underground tanks for storing rain water “which seemed to be made by the hand of man” [44]. Sources of water include open wells and streams, and creeks [42,44]. Wells of four fathoms (24 feet) were recorded in northeast Nigeria, while dykes were constructed to ward off flooding waters in communities [44].
The purpose and use of water infrastructures varied across the country relative to the geographical characteristic of each region. The southern region, a predominantly rain forest area, did not need for developing extensive irrigation infrastructures for agricultural purposes due to the abundance of rainwater and perennial or ephemeral streams.
Table
Table 1. Nigeria’s comparative position in water-related sectors with countries in West and Central Africa.
Table 1. Nigeria’s comparative position in water-related sectors with countries in West and Central Africa.
CountryPopulation 5
(2019 Estimates)
thousands		Life Expectancy 4
(Years)		Fertility RateHuman Development Index (HDI) 3 (2018)Water 2
(2019 Estimates)		Energy 1Irrigation 1
(2017 Estimates)
Rank (out of 189)Value (out of 1)Drinking Water Access (%)Water-Related Diseases (deaths/year)Production (MW)Electricity Access (%)Agricultural Land (thousand Ha)Irrigated Area (% of Agricultural Land)
Nigeria200,964485.51570.53269177,80012,52259.370,8000.41
Cameroon25,876514.61510.5565318,300160060.197500.30
Chad15,947465.81860.4045214,3002158.850,2380.06
Niger23,311427.01890.3545840,30028416.246,660n/a
Central African Republic4745484.81880.36768430028850800.02
Democratic Republic of Congo86,791476.01760.45752107,3002472931,5000.03
Source: Compiled from the following sources: [45,46] 1, [21] 2, [39] 3, [47] 4, and [48] 5.
Land cultivation in the Niger-Delta region and other parts along the Niger-Benue trough was watered by flood waters. However, as one progresses towards the semi-arid north, the technology changes to ox-powered wheels and shadoofs (Figure 1) for irrigation and groundwater extraction.
Henry Barth, the famous German explorer, described its use as “drawing up the water in a large leather bag containing a supply sufficient for two horses” [50], a system that suggested that other than human labour, precolonial Nigerians used different technologies for water supply. Domestic water storage and consumption used mortars, calabashes (a type of gourd used for collecting or storing water), rock carvings (Indentations of about 2 cm deep are made into rocks for collecting water and feeding pastures or drinking water), draughts, water skins, water ponds or tebki in Ỳorừbá and Kanuri societies of northern Nigeria [51,52]. The production of these water carrying and storage equipment are mostly gendered and created by women. Pottery, for example, was a primarily female industry where high-quality clay, native to large areas of the Ỳorừbá country is turned into large water-storage pots for domestic and sometimes commercial uses [42,53].

4.2. Colonial and Post-Independence Water Infrastructure Development

In the Sokoto-Rima basin, the Kware irrigation scheme was Nigeria’s first major European style irrigation scheme [54]. The first machine-drilled borehole was bored in 1933 [55], following the construction of the first European style dam with the Lagos water supply scheme in the late 1800s [56]. After six years of self-government from 1954–1960, Nigeria attained independence from the British in 1960. Colonial and post-independence water infrastructure development relied on the national development plans (hereafter, the plans) (see Table A3) and the agricultural development programs (ADPs) as the two main national planning and policy mechanisms. The plans were a set of documents outlining Nigeria’s approach to national economic development, starting with the 1946 10-year plan for development to the fifth national development plan 1985–1990 [57]. The ADPs (1974–1997) were agricultural intervention programs created to enhance national development through primary agricultural production and food sustainability [17,58]. As the world’s largest World Bank development investment program in developing countries at the time, the Nigerian ADPs cost approximately US$1.2 billion [59] and contributed tremendously, sometimes beyond planned targets to rural water infrastructural development. A total of 190 dams and 12,651 boreholes and wells were constructed within the 22-year period (see Table A4).
The 1995 national water resources development masterplan (NWRDMP) was the first comprehensive water resources assessment and planning for the entire Country [60], followed by the 2013 national water resources masterplan (NWRMP) [23]. Table 2 shows the distribution of proposed large and medium dams in the 1995 NWRDMP based on the hydrological areas. Financed by a Japanese Government’s technical assistance grant through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) [61], the water supply and irrigation component of the 1995 planned to construct a total of 208 large and medium dams as a long term strategy [62].
These proposed dams (and boreholes) were to increase water supply and irrigation targets to 1.5 × 106 ha and 80 per cent of the population by 2020 [62]. There was also a marked difference between dam development proposal between JICA and RBDA, MANR, and the SWA as the responsible state institutions for water infrastructure development. With this historical overview of water infrastructure development in Nigeria, we can analyse dam purposes, sizes, management and development, and the future of water infrastructure development in Nigeria.

4.3. Dam Uses and Purposes

Constructed dams in Nigeria are classified according to size—small (<5 m), medium (<10 m), and large (>15 m) [26,37], with each having one or more purposes. Nigeria’s dams provide approximately 40 percent of their water for agriculture-related uses (fishing, livestock rearing, and irrigation) and 40 percent for urban and rural potable water supply (Figure 2).
Irrigation and water supply account for approximately 67 percent of all dams constructed, aligning with the intention of the development plans. In Figure 3, constructed dams for water supply is consistently higher than agriculture purposes since 1960, except in the early 1970s and mid-1980s when the cumulative agriculture number exceeded it. Agriculture purposes consist of irrigation, livestock rearing, and fishing. Agriculture growth is primarily due to the intensification of agriculture development during the oil boom between 1970 and 1998 and the end of the ADPs in the mid-1980s.
Furthermore, the declaration of an international drinking water supply and sanitation decade between 1980 and 1990 [64], and some of the supply-side drought management strategies of the Nigerian Government [65]. Majority of the constructed dams during this period were multipurpose, which almost always had a water supply component.
Multi-purpose dams (Figure 4) have more than one purpose for their construction and use. Colonial-era dam development focused mainly on welfare and social services such as public water supply and flood control in small towns and other urban centres [66]. The historical pattern of dam purposes indicates the government’s direction and intent in developing multipurpose dams. Between 1972 and 1992, 39 percent of dams were multi-purpose compared to 30 percent between 1993 and 2007. These figures show that post-independence multipurpose dam development was high aside from the period of the civil war (1967–1970). Contrary to the common idea that the 1970s and 1980s Sahelian droughts did not cause a rise in dam development in Nigeria during that period. Rather, the intensity of dam development, especially for agriculture, was due to a planned developmentalist intervention expressed in the national development plans. These plan’s ideological basis originated in the colonial period. Contrary to the common idea that the 1970s and 1980s Sahelian droughts caused a rise in dam development in Nigeria, during that period, the intensity of dam development, especially for agriculture, is principally a planned developmentalist intervention of the national development plans whose ideological basis is dated to the colonial period.
In Figure 5, dam purpose is further disaggregated to show the corresponding number of dams and number of purposes of construction. Noted earlier, the sharp increase in multi-purpose dams coincided with the intensification of agricultural and rural development, completion of many of the ADPs, and the pursuit of Nigeria’s socio-economic objectives regarding public health and water supply. Approximately one-third of multi-purpose dams have two purposes (water supply and irrigation), representing 30 percent of the total number of all multi-purpose dams. Together, dams with five and six purposes account for approximately 28 percent of all multi-purpose dams. However, 94 percent of these dams are large, while the remaining 6 percent are medium-sized dams.
Figure 6 shows the three main categories of dam construction. The agriculture category sums up all agriculture-related activities (noted in Figure 3), while hydroelectric and water supply are standalone purposes. The dominant occurrence of water supply indicates that substantial financial investments have been made towards water supply development despite the general narrative of underinvestment in water supply infrastructure [67] and the subordination of water supply in government policies.
However, these investments are yet to translate to sustainable water access for the public. Essentially, the dynamics of dam purposes indicates the direction and interests of the Nigerian state and its broader developmental ambitions.

4.4. Dam Sizes

In Figure 7, the historical distribution of dam sizes shows how dams built during the colonial period were mostly small and large until the late 1930s. The passage of the second and third Colonial Development and Welfare Acts facilitated the construction of more dams by enabling a transition from extractive development for the empire to welfare for Nigerians [68]. After the second world war, dwindling financial resources and a lack of technical expertise in the water sector led to reduced dam construction [69,70].
Dam sizes also indicate the direction of the government’s post-independence development intention. For example, the prevalence of large and medium dams suggests an excessive focus on energy generation and agriculture development as in other countries (e.g., Spain, Sudan) [71,72] or increased water supply development for urban centers. Figure 8 shows the spatial distribution of completed dams and the hydrological zones in post-independent Nigeria during different political systems. In the southwestern parts, majority of the dams were completed between 1984 and 1998, where democratic governments were active and civil society was more engaged in public administration.
In addition, the low density of dams in the northeastern parts of the country is tied to the region’s endemic infrastructure and urban poverty levels [73] due to the low utilisation of land and other ecological assets [74]. Furthermore, the Sahelian climate with dry arid lands caused by meteorological droughts and variable rainfall meant many seasonal rivers and streams dry out. Drought is exacerbated by climate change [75,76,77] which diminishes dam development as a viable supply-side strategy.
Despite the impact of the oil glut in the late 1970s and rising debt levels, mainly due to inflationary trends and food imports, the five years of democratic government in the second republic achieved the highest levels of completed large dams. It is also evident that most dams in the country’s north were completed during the military regime between 1967 and 1979. As shown in Figure 8, under a democratic government (1979–1984), many of these dams were large dams that followed the development of the ADPs and the water supply decade.

4.5. Dam Ownership and Development

Dam owners, contractors and consultants (Figure 9) in Nigeria form a kind of water elite whose decisions determine the success or failure of dam construction and management [78]. Dam owners have the authority to manage the dam. In some cases, dam owners also act as consultants and contractors to build dams, thereby are responsible for the dam engineering design and construction. Dam contractors build the dams while dam consultants provide technical advice. These dam actors are categorised into two main groups: government and private. Government actors own and manage state-owned construction (e.g., the RBDAs) and consulting agencies (OYSADEP—Òyó state agriculture development program), often run like private corporations. Dam contractors can either be state or federal government entities. Private actors are local or foreign businesses that were classified based on the location of their official headquarters.
Dam actors perform a variety of independent or overlapping roles. For example, state or federal government parastatal often owns a dam they construct using state-owned companies as was common in the 1960s and 1970s (e.g., OYSADEP). Figure 9 further shows that the federal and state governments own most dams, whereas contracting and consultancy services are provided mainly by federal agencies and private companies. Arguably, this disproportionate pattern in dam development has implications for the sustainability of water infrastructures.

5. Discussions

5.1. Infrastructural and Spatial Divisions

Water infrastructure development in Nigeria has deepened the rural–urban divide due to the differences in water sources and water infrastructure. In policy language and planning, the third plan favoured an integrated rural-urban development approach and aspired to “ensure that no community of 20,000 people or more shall be without essential services” [79]. However, the guideline for the implementation of the plan differentiated between rural and urban water infrastructure development. This distinction is traceable to the colonial government’s 10-year development plan in 1946 [80]. Valid at the time, using this distinction as a conceptual pillar was questionable in the 1960s and subsequent years due to the social and infrastructural transformation of rural areas, particularly in transportation [81].
Post-civil war plans for providing rural water supply were driven by ‘rural productivity’, while urban water supply infrastructure—viewed as social and economic infrastructure—was designed to improve ‘urban productivity’ [82,83]. Here, water supply infrastructure is perceived as having two distinct roles for the federal government. Rural productivity imagines rural areas and their populations as spatially, temporally, and demographically static entities. This view suggests that their specific sociocultural histories limit their aspirations and needs, while their economic desires are restricted by predetermined cultural and traditional conditions and identities. In other words, rural cultural and traditional belief systems stop rural people from developing their economic potentials. Urban productivity builds on idealised ‘growth centres’ that seeks to boost the industrial and commercial capacities of new state capitals emerging from newly created states. These conceptual issues have further entrenched the rural–urban divide.
The functionality of water schemes has a regional dimension, with projects in the southern region more likely to fail than in the north over 15 years; 51 percent of these failures are due to fixed variables such as political region and hydrogeology [84]. Water schemes sustainability is comparatively better in the north in terms of greater water access. However, due to increasing levels of internal migration to the southwest, especially Lagos, water utilities are under considerable stress [85]. Fifty-five percent of the total population and over 75 percent of agricultural households in the north live below the poverty line, and the northern part of the country performs below the national average on most development indicators [86]. Despite the presence of most large dams in the north, the functionality of water points and water schemes is higher in the north than in the south [87]. Economic poverty is also a delineating factor in the national North–South divide, and the link between water access and material poverty in this regard is established in the literature [88]. The North–South divide has also triggered several debates about federal government infrastructural developmental priorities in agriculture, resources allocation and revenue allocation based on the principle of equitable development used for revenue allocation.

5.2. Deprioritising Water Supply

Inherent in its design, Nigeria’s first ‘national’ development plan categorically excluded water resources development and subsumed agriculture development and water resources development under a broad economic development framework. The third and fourth development plans captured water supply in a category of ‘social amenities’, including medical facilities, schools, and electricity [89]. Pius Okigbo noted the “exclusion of activities like water resources development (for agriculture and industry)” from what the government saw as the productive economic sector [57]. The third plan did not commit adequate funds for effective implementation of socioeconomic inequalities or address critical issues related to water supply despite having a surplus of US$5.2 billion [90,91]. Unlike the agricultural sector, the first federally initiated and managed urban water supply project occurred in 1992 [92], a 19-year difference between direct federal involvement in water supply. Before this project, the World Bank-supported a range of state urban water supply initiatives and large dam constructions (e.g., the Anambra state water supply project in 1980). The water supply decade focused chiefly on rural water supply infrastructure development with boreholes as the primary water infrastructure (e.g., The National Borehole Program).

5.3. Political Infrastructures

Agriculture development through irrigation was historically a central pillar of development planning and intervention in Nigeria [57,93]. Sahelian droughts are a historical reality for Northern Nigeria who sees water resources and irrigation development as a “basic natural resource” for economic development [94]. Colonial-era irrigation systems were constructed to control farmers’ productivity [70] while simultaneously ignoring existing local wetland irrigation practices [95,96,97]. The Northern Region Development Programme 1962–1968 dedicated 838,000 Pounds for irrigation development in the Sokoto-Rima valley as part of this agenda [94]. Similarly, the federal government’s anti-drought management strategy in 1973 hinged upon a short and long-term approach. The short term approach provided a US$13.3 million welfare grant to four northern states affected by the drought, while the long term strategy aimed to construct grain stores, increase grain production, and establish the 250,000 tons National Strategic Grains Reserve stipulated in the third plan [98,99].
Two crucial factors determine the further decline in the dam numbers during the 1990s. First, the political instability arising from the complex military/democratic structure had begun to show the fractures inherent in such a system due to the increasing pressure on General Babangida to hand over power to a democratic president. This initial pressure spiralled into the 1993 annulment that led to a transitional government and eventual take over by Gen. Sani Abacha. The second point relates to the end of the World Bank ADPs in 1993. These political changes meant that the multistate ADPs had to adjust to the flow-on effect of the corresponding policy and institutional changes like the new states’ commodity boards, which were often technically, financially and administratively ill-equipped to manage the ADPs [100]. Even though the ADPs did not prioritise water supply, there were ‘unintended positive consequences’ for rural water supply going by the success of the water supply component of the programme [101]. The water supply components consisted of small dams, wells, and public standpipes.
The political problems are also linked to the corresponding management challenges, which the GWP-N (Global Water Partnership-Nigeria) considers a critical governance problem in Nigeria. By asking to identify the ‘main actors in water service provision, their interests and those of the stakeholders involved’ [102], the GWP-N seeks to understand the allocation of power in the relations between various stakeholders invested in water infrastructure. Governance responses also prioritise the technical, financial, and technological manipulation and modification of governance systems, ecologies, and infrastructure [103,104,105,106] at the expense of narratives, policies, and governance practices that consider the local context [32]. Such responses include expanding water storage and access capacities by building more dams and boreholes [24,33,107] and constructing the additional 370 dams noted earlier [107].

5.4. Infrastructure Failures and Sustainability

Water project failures are a crucial challenge in Nigeria. For example, in the rural water supply sector, functionality and sustainability as concepts are scrutinised due to the preponderance of failed water projects [84,87,108]. The FMWR observed that 116 projects were still uncompleted or ongoing after an average of 15 years since commencement; 38 irrigation and drainage projects, 37 dam projects, and 41 water supply projects [109]. An estimated 46 percent of water schemes (water schemes are water supply projects with drinking water as the main water component) are non-functional in Nigeria [84]. The failure of these utilities impacts water access geographically, manifestly in the rural–urban dichotomies and differences [108,110] and at the household level [111]. In addition, existing water infrastructure cannot sustain current population growth due to the rate of infrastructural deterioration and low infrastructural investment [86].
Nevertheless, the federal government plan to construct additional 370 dams (10 dams in each state and the federal capital territory) in the country over the next four years [107]. This ambition demonstrates a lack of reflection on what the Global Water Partnership-Nigeria described as the “underlying causal factors of infrastructure deterioration and decay to militate against a repeat of similar problems in the future” [102]. Ultimately, project failures cannot be divorced from the question of power and equitable distribution, or the politicisation of these infrastructure projects’ stakeholders, mechanisms, and governing processes.

5.5. Infrastructure Classification and Typologies

In Nigeria and globally, dams and reservoirs are usually classified in size and capacity [8]. Standpipes and dams in Nigeria are still classified as technological entities [112] despite evidence for the sociotechnical nature of its development, use, and management [113,114,115,116]. Taps, dug wells, and standpipes classified for potable water supply [117] raises questions about the source-infrastructure conundrum. A lack of a clear theoretical definition of what constitutes a water infrastructure (a Google search of “what is a water infrastructure?” showed 257 results) becomes a specific problem for developing countries due to the different water governance systems, repeated malfunctioning of water infrastructure [12], and multiplicities of technologies [118].

5.6. Optimal Use of Water Resources and Infrastructure

Nigeria’s 8600 inland waterways [119] offer several social and economic development opportunities which can be channelled to increase economic opportunities. However, agriculture and water supply account for seventy-five percent of dam construction in Nigeria, while energy, the bedrock of any nation’s economic development, sits at six percent (Figure 3). In contrast to seventy percent for rich countries, Africa’s current hydroelectric potential development remains at approximately three percent [120]. With navigation, colonial historical records show that the Benue River was navigable all year round in the 19th century [121]. Nevertheless, efforts to dredge the lower Niger river has met with fierce resistance from downstream water users.
Water-related tourism is another potential area for economic development. The World Travel & Tourism Council’s report predicts that the Nigerian tourism industry will grow to approximately two percent of GDP by 2028 [122]. Tourism’s potential socioeconomic and political impact could be harnessed to mitigate conflicts and aid post-conflict environments [123,124,125]. Dams and other water bodies possess potential as tourism infrastructures [126]. Increased optimisation of these resources could raise additional pressures (and opportunities) for different regions and states in Nigeria. However, the opportunities this presents could be effectively harnessed with a conceptual perspective that situates people and power at the forefront of resource use and management.

5.7. The Future of Water Infrastructure Development

Figure 10 shows a state-by-state outline of new and rehabilitated boreholes for water supply and agriculture planned to achieve SDG 6 and the regional disparities across the states (see Table A5). Standpipes are a component of a water supply scheme where people gather around a pipe to access water for domestic and commercial uses but also irrigation purposes.
Water from standpipes is primarily sourced from groundwater but also reticulated systems from dams. Standpipes in this paper include tubewells, boreholes, protected wells, public taps, and protected springs [128]. These reflect the range of ‘hardware’ components used to meet Nigeria’s SDG 6 long-term strategy of achieving full access to water by 2030 [129]. It is also conceptualised differently to water governance, use, and construction of dams because the community management model is the standard management framework for most water points in Nigeria. States like Imo, Abia, and Jigawa with approximately 90 percent improved drinking water rates will build new water supply boreholes in equal numbers as Taraba, Gombe, and Sokoto in the North with over 50 percent margin in improved water access. Eight northern states (Borno, Adamawa, Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, and Sokoto) account for 38 percent of the new boreholes to be constructed for agriculture, while Lagos, the most populous state in Nigeria (22 million) and ranking 31 out of 36 states on water access, has the lowest number of new boreholes to be constructed for water supply. The variations on newly constructed boreholes across states and Abuja demonstrate how investments by states with lower water access rates can entrench the spatial inequities in water infrastructure and water access.
With dams, the 2013 NWRMP proposes 81 new and ongoing dams to be constructed and plan to rehabilitate 87 existing dams [37]. However, the NWRMP contained no description of the technological choices. Therefore, it misses the opportunity to embrace less ecologically disruptive technologies such as “zero head” used predominantly in China and India [130]. Recent studies on the role of dams (especially small dams) in developing countries suggest that small scale dam development for small towns water supply development could facilitate the achievement of the SDGs [131]. Although opinions are divided on whether Africa should pursue a dam-driven ‘green’ infrastructure trajectory, most of these studies disproportionately focus on large dams while reports of social and ecological damages caused by small dams remain to be assessed [130]. Despite the historical problems, effective development of small and medium scale dams is promising for a sustainable future for water supply, agriculture, and hydropower development [132]. Moreover, increases from such development fit conceptually into the broader African infrastructure agenda proposed in the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) framework [133].
Effective development here means focussing on what is variously called ‘nature based solutions; and ‘ecosystem based adaptation’, e.g., restoring water catchments as suggested by the United Nations in Valuing Water [7]. Rehabilitating existing, failed, and deteriorating dams, and their catchments to support current climate mitigation efforts, especially in the north west of Nigeria. Better management of groundwater as a different water source as there are indication that the Sahelian and Niger basin groundwater stock is increasing [134,135]. Supporting Indigenous knowledge systems to improve local rainwater harvest and conservation agriculture. Lastly, encourage a more efficient use of existing water and return environmental flows. These options will set Nigeria on a different path from its past, for a more sustainable future where social, economic, ecological resources form the basis of future water infrastructure development.

6. Conclusions

This article presents a historical outline of water infrastructure development in Nigeria with a specific focus on dam management and development, dam sizes, and dam use and purpose using data from the Nigerian compendium of dams 2007 and the 1995 and 2014 national water resources masterplan. In addition to the national development plans, the national water resources development masterplan (1995 and 2013) and the agriculture development programs (ADPs) are the two post-independence policy documents and frameworks that distinctly underpin water infrastructure development in Nigeria. The subordination of water supply infrastructural development to agricultural development at the national level until the early 1990s was evident in the four national development plans and investment in agricultural development programs. The inadequate attention to, and unequal treatment of, rural water supply in the development discourse is apparent and affects livelihoods. A lack of intentional design and poor conceptualisation forces rural populations to bear the brunt of delayed, deteriorated, and failed water infrastructure.
Based on this assessment, priorities for more sustainable water resources development include:
  • Reimagining how water infrastructure is optimally used in both the productive and non-productive sectors. Tourism and small-scale hydroelectric production capacities of the small and medium dams should be explored.
  • Contemporary rural–urban development approaches that are coherent and integrative to reflect the blurred geographical and infrastructural boundaries that previously separated peoples. These spatial differences are evident in the differentiated access to water between the southern and northern parts of the country and rural and urban areas.
  • Infrastructure development options must remain flexible enough to cater for an uncertain future in terms of population growth, economic needs, and climate change [136].
  • Actors involved in policy planning, formulation and implementation should invest more to understand the power relations and political dimensions of water infrastructure development, specifically, in its spatial allocation, financing, and budgetary investments.
A synergy between researchers, the private sector, and government at all levels can facilitate more sustainable water resources development by drawing on existing financial, technical, and regulatory knowledge and opportunities at local, regional, and international levels [137].
Three areas of future research emerge from this study. First, there is a need to better document and monitor dams, reservoirs, and other water infrastructure in Nigeria. Such systematic data collection would ensure more accurate estimates of Nigeria’s water storage capacity and establish exact stages of infrastructural failure, deterioration, or accretion. Second, the validity and sustainability of current rural water supply strategies overwhelmingly provided through wells and boreholes require further investigation as unsustainability appears to be an intrinsic attribute of this model of development. Finally, further research is needed to examine how power asymmetries between federal, state, and local governments can improve effectiveness and the increased roles of non-state actors in water infrastructure development and management. Such structural adaptations are necessary for large scale transformation; however, more research on this sociopolitical aspect is urgently needed.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, A.A.; Data curation, A.A., K.A.D. and J.P.; Formal analysis, A.A.; Visualization, K.A.D., A.A.; Writing–original draft, A.A.; Writing–review & editing, A.A.; K.A.D. and J.P. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by the Australian National University [PhD grant].

Institutional Review Board Statement

The research for this paper was approved under ANU HREC protocol number 2016/677.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

The study reported no data, please exclude.

Acknowledgments

We thank the two anonymous reviewers.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Appendix A

Table
Table A1. Current challenges in water resource management [27].
Table A1. Current challenges in water resource management [27].
i. Unevenly distributed water resources and demand necessitating the creation of dams and transportation of water to the areas of need.
ii. Inadequate access to usable water resources to meet the rapidly increasing domestic and industrial (economic growth) water demand. These are manifested by poor access to clean and potable water in urban, small towns and rural areas, low levels of irrigation agriculture, poor utilisation of hydropower potentials and limited inland fishery.
iii. Degrading watershed and water courses as a result of widespread pollution, including the indiscriminate disposal of hazardous wastes due to poor pollution and mining control leading to deteriorating water quality.
iv. Fragmented and uncoordinated water resources development as a result of inadequate catchment management.
v. Unclear roles and responsibilities among the various levels of government, different ministries, departments and agencies at the federal and state levels.
vi. Poor coordination (including international donor coordination), mobilisation and application of funds for water supply development. This often leads to duplication of efforts, wastages, and inefficiency in the development and management of water infrastructure throughout the country
vii. Inadequate water resources data collection and management. This leads to poor planning and project designs.
viii. Limited groundwater availability in the areas underlain by crystalline rocks which covers substantial parts of the country, while for the more productive sedimentary areas of the country, detailed study and documentation is still premature.
ix. Poor or lack of monitoring and control of groundwater resources.
x. Escalating costs of water production and distribution for domestic and industrial water supply, irrigation, husbandry, horticulture and other uses against dwindling financial resources.
xi. Inefficient government subsidies on the provision water services.
xii. Extreme weather conditions due to climate change resulting in prolonged droughts, increased flooding, widespread erosion, and communal conflicts.
xiii. Vicious cycle of unreliable projects that provide services that do not meet consumer needs and for which the consumers are unwilling to pay.
xiv. Poor or inefficient management of water resources infrastructures like dams, reservoirs, waterworks with their related distribution networks, irrigation structures, and navigable waterways leading to financial losses and unreliable service delivery.
Table
Table A2. Nigeria’s transboundary organisations. Source: Authors.
Table A2. Nigeria’s transboundary organisations. Source: Authors.
Transboundary OrganisationsSome Rivers and Lakes SystemsInfrastructuresApproachCountriesConvention SignedAim
Niger Basin AuthorityNiger; Bani; Benue; Kaduna; Lake Faguibine; SenegalKandaji dam; MambillaMultilateralBenin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Chad26 October 1963To promote the co-operation among the Member States and to ensure integrated development of the Niger Basin in all fields, by developing its resources particularly in the fields of energy, water resources, agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and fisheries, forestry exploitation transport, communications, and industry.
Lake Chad Basin CommissionLake Chad; Chari-Logone; Komadugu-YobeMaga DamMultilateralNigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon22 May 1964To intensify Member States’ cooperative efforts in the economic development of the Lake Chad Basin, a specific area defined as the conventional Basin with particular attention to surface water utilisation but also extending widely to agriculture, livestock, minerals, industry, transportation, and telecommunications.
Niger-Nigeria Joint CommissionNigerKainjiBilateralNiger and Nigeria3 March 1971To have the general and exclusive jurisdiction to identify the several ways and means of coordinating and harmonising the economies of the two countries in all fields to achieve increased and more effective cooperation between them.
Cameroon-Nigeria mixed CommissionBenue; Lake Nyos; Katsina-AlaLagdo damBilateralNigeria and Cameroon15 November 2002To facilitate the implementation of the 10 October 2002 judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Cameroon-Nigeria boundary dispute.
Table
Table A3. Federal government capital expenditure for water and agriculture in the national development plans. Source: Authors.
Table A3. Federal government capital expenditure for water and agriculture in the national development plans. Source: Authors.
PlanYearsProjected Resources (N million)Water (Other than Irrigation) (%)Agriculture (%)
10-Year plan1945–1955NANANA
Development programs1955–1961NANANA
First1962–196824343.613.6
Second1970–197490515.8n/a
Third1975–198043,7832.85.0
Fourth1981–198596,9680.411.1
Fifth1988–1992n/an/an/a
Table
Table A4. The World Bank Agricultural Development Programs. Source: Authors.
Table A4. The World Bank Agricultural Development Programs. Source: Authors.
Program NameLoan Amount (US$ million)Loan Approval (Year)Loan Closed (Year)Completed (Year)Water Supply ComponentProject Evaluation Ratings
PlannedCompletedSustainabilityOverall Assessment
DamsOthersDamsOthers
First generation: Enclave ADPsFuntua ADP29197419821982850450LikelySatisfactory
Gusau ADP19197419821982850470LikelySatisfactory
Gombe ADP21197419821982850400LikelySatisfactory
Lafia ADP2719771984198504000259UnlikelyUnsatisfactory
Ayangba ADP3519771985198500024UnlikelyUnsatisfactory
Bida ADP231979198719900000UnlikelySatisfactory
Ilorin ADP271979198819920000UncertainUnsatisfactory
Oyo North ADP2819801988198940300121391UncertainUnsatisfactory
Ekiti-Akoko ADP32.519801986198635000UncertainUnsatisfactory
Total 241.5 3307001441674
Second generation: State-wide ADPsBauchi state ADP13219811989198925130001480UncertainSatisfactory
Kano state ADP1421981198919900100001659UncertainSatisfactory
Sokoto state ADP14719821990199001200323500UncertainUnsatisfactory
Kaduna/Katsina ADP12219841994199548142091302UncertainSatisfactory
South Borno ADP2519861994199409100437LikelySatisfactory
Total 568 735830418378
Third generation: Multistate ADPFirst Multistate ADP1621986199519950257401684LikelySatisfactory
Second Multistate ADP85.219891995199509750443LikelySatisfactory
Third Multistate ADP100.9198919961997379705472UncertainSatisfactory
Total 348.1 37451952599
Grand Total 1157.6 44011,04919012,651
Table
Table A5. Number of newly drilled borehole to meet water demand of 2030. Source: [37].
Table A5. Number of newly drilled borehole to meet water demand of 2030. Source: [37].
Urban/Semi-Urban/Small TownRural
Motorised PumpMotorised PumpHand Pump
State200 m50 mTotal200 m50 mTotal Overall Total
Abia108215323786314012172144
Adamawa295465755029534531164956
Akwa Ibom133451782153424922423096
Anambra71761471895424322663046
Bauchi14133347423427050446616617
Bayelsa2080208560565421070
Benue162182342332634930664232
Borno35330365631110641839106057
Cross River181611794014518515952323
Delta2080208178017816122384
Ebonyi000420320618672280
Edo1452343791399523420783304
Ekiti0101101088887921170
Enugu95118012757916524420875125
Gombe335255585316922120113570
Imo2122434552269832430144572
Jigawa3172105271764922520443548
Kaduna2168170124624822983133
Kano2654256811559671168049362
Katsina335975131014332546843287884
Kebbi22827850616110927023173869
Kogi953744697915423320853489
Kwara192002191373857591368
Lagos00033033286352
Nasarawa2211013229901199371439
Niger17918436312913426322723524
Ogun0001547322619252378
Ondo201852055415320618692692
Osun0146146014014012001772
Oyo28991625125823863083
Plateau123473592529932429264292
Rivers3220322309030929564218
Sokoto2465397851504519515803540
Taraba154304453323827024703901
Yobe183992821832020318082778
Zamfara393373766419425824083676
FCT Abuja25139714221074848043816
Total385710,79014,64737365369910582,538130,042

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Figure 1. A shadoof [49].
Figure 1. A shadoof [49].
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Figure 2. Uses of dams in Nigeria [63].
Figure 2. Uses of dams in Nigeria [63].
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Figure 3. Distribution and trend of dams constructed for water supply and agriculture from 1923–2007 in Nigeria [63].
Figure 3. Distribution and trend of dams constructed for water supply and agriculture from 1923–2007 in Nigeria [63].
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Figure 4. Distribution and trend of multi-purpose and single-purpose dams 1923–2007 [63].
Figure 4. Distribution and trend of multi-purpose and single-purpose dams 1923–2007 [63].
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Figure 5. Number of purposes for each dam and percentage of total number of multi-purpose dams.
Figure 5. Number of purposes for each dam and percentage of total number of multi-purpose dams.
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Figure 6. Distribution of completed hydroelectric power, agriculture, and water supply dams 1923–2007 [63].
Figure 6. Distribution of completed hydroelectric power, agriculture, and water supply dams 1923–2007 [63].
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Figure 7. Dam sizes and year in Nigeria 1923–2007 [63].
Figure 7. Dam sizes and year in Nigeria 1923–2007 [63].
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Figure 8. Distribution of completed dams in post-independence Nigeria [37,63].
Figure 8. Distribution of completed dams in post-independence Nigeria [37,63].
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Figure 9. Dam actors: distribution of dam ownership, contractors, and consultants in Nigeria 1923–2007.
Figure 9. Dam actors: distribution of dam ownership, contractors, and consultants in Nigeria 1923–2007.
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Figure 10. New and rehabilitated boreholes to meet SDG 6 in 2030: Improved drinking water sources and agriculture needs in Nigerian states [127].
Figure 10. New and rehabilitated boreholes to meet SDG 6 in 2030: Improved drinking water sources and agriculture needs in Nigerian states [127].
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Table 2. Proposed large and medium dams for irrigation and water supply towards 2020 in 1995 NWRDMP.
Table 2. Proposed large and medium dams for irrigation and water supply towards 2020 in 1995 NWRDMP.
Hydrological Area (HA)HA1HA2HA3HA4HA5HA6HA7HA8Total
JICA114923491437250233
RBDA, MANR, SWA325164044056
Source: [62]. MANR: Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources; SWA: State Water Agencies.
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