Investments on the order of US$6 billion are estimated to be needed in the water sector in Nigeria in the next 10 years if the country is to achieve universal water supply coverage. This is the main finding of State Water Agencies in Nigeria: A Performance Assessment, in which the objective is to provide the government of Nigeria with a structured and coherent quantitative snapshot of the state of its urban water sector. The report focuses on water provision services from the States' Water...

The International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities of the World Banks Water and Sanitation Program (IBNET) has been involved in water sector monitoring since 1997. It has set a global standard for performance assessment of utilities, with information from more than 4,400 utilities from 135 countries. This edition of the Blue Book summarizes the water sector status from 2006 to 2011. It adopts the "IBNET Apgar" consolidated scoring system, which assesses a utilitys hea...