Lagos partners foreign investors to hold int’l water conference

By Dada Jackson

Lagos State Government is set to hold the 2021 edition of the annual International Water Conference in conjunction with foreign investors, which will discuss and draw up an investment plan for infrastructural development in the water and waste water section of the state.

The General Manager of the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission, Mrs Funke Adepoju, who announced this at the pre-event briefing, said the conference would take place on June 23, 2021 at Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

She said the event would also showcase investment opportunities in the water and waste water sector of state.

According to her, one of the major objectives of organising the international water conference for industries and stakeholders’ engagement was to attract investors.

The LASWARCO boss stressed the significance of the conference, which would reflect on the domestic and industrial use of water and its importance to a state, especially an urbanised one.

“This also means its scarcity, contamination or wastage would obviously be hazardous,” she added.

This year’s conference is themed ‘Water security and investment opportunities in mega cities: A case of Lagos State’.

According to Adepoju, the conference aims at facilitating efficiency in the water sector, encouraging long-term investment and enabling the financial viability of the water sector.

In addition, she said the conference would focus on how to enhance smooth relationship between players and actors in mega cities in the water sector in the face of increasing population, rapid urbanization, growing economic activities and of course climate change.

It would focus on solutions and results capable of unbundling the obstacles to financial viability and access to clean water and sanitation through experimental knowledge, she said.

Those expected at the conference are top functionaries of government and stakeholders, according to the agency.