Lagos government through the State's Water Regulatory Commission (LSWRC) has cautioned operators in the borehole drilling industry against carrying on with their activities without the requisite licence and permit from the agency.
LSWRC Executive Secretary, Mrs Funke Adepoju, in a statement, said as a proactive government, the present administration had commenced full enforcement of the licensing and permitting regime for borehole drillers to ensure safe water consumption by residents, protect groundwater and engender environmental sustainability.
She said the enforcement, which is a regulatory provision, was part of the control measures by the state government to prevent unregulated drilling of borehole in the State.
According to her, the Lagos State Harmonized Environmental Protection and Management Law (2017) empowers the LSWRC to regulate the production, distribution, abstraction, consumption, supply and use of water, as well as quality of service, and that it would amount to breaching the law for any borehole driller and owner to operate without licence and permit from the Commission.
With the importance of groundwater, government is poised to protect it from pollution, contamination of water bodies, unregulated drilling ,saline filtration, environmental degradation, among others," the LSWRC boss explained.
