NIGER

NIGER STATS



CAPITAL:  NIAMEY
POPULATION: 13,597,000
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
BELOW POVERTY: 63%
ACCESS TO WATER: 42%
ACCESS TO IMPROVED SANITATION: 7%
AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME: $984
CHRISTIAN: 5%

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In 1994, World Vision came to Niger with the objective of establishing longer-term community based projects focused on health, education and the protection of children, as well as responding to emergency food needs when necessary. 

NIGER WATER

NEWS
Water and sanitation coverage rates in Nigeria are amongst the lowest in the world. Access to an improved water source stagnated at 47% from 1990 to 2006, but increased to 54% in 2010. In urban areas, access to an improved water source actually decreased from 80% to 65% in 2006, but it then recovered to 74% in 2010. However, in urban areas access to standpipes substituted to a large extent to piped water access. Access to adequate sanitation decreased from 39% in 1990 to 35% in 2010, with a particularly marked decrease in urban areas. 25% of Nigerians have to use shared sanitation facilities, which are not considered as adequate. 22% are estimated to use other inadequate facilities and another 22% are estimated to defecate in the open. Adequate sanitation is typically in the form of latrines or septic tanks. Piped sewerage is almost nonexistent. Except for some parts of Abuja and Lagos, no urban community has a sewerage system. A 2006 study estimated that only 1% of Lagos households were connected to sewers. Lagos has four wastewater treatment plants which have been rehabilitated around 2010. As of 2011, the state planned to build ten new "mega wastewater treatment plants" over the next five years with the help of private investors. These have not yet been completed.

The statistics on access to water and sanitation are conflicting, due to divergent definitions, indicators and methodologies applied by different agencies. There is hardly any sector monitoring.

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