“…Current water supply efforts of government are concentrated in the urban areas. It is reported that the highest urban population that have access to public water services is 3.8% for Uyo, while 90% of the state rural water projects are either neglected, abandoned, non-functional or uncompleted [4,5]. In the rural areas, however, there is a high dependence on all forms of natural sources of water for domestic use (e.g., streams, river, rain, wells).…”