The Federal Government on Monday called for increased climate financing to strengthen Nigeria’s water, sanitation and hygiene systems.
It emphasised that greater investment is critical to protecting communities from the growing impacts of climate change.
The call came as the Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Joseph Terlumun Utsev, declared open the 2026 Annual National Climate Change and WASH Conference in Abuja, where he reaffirmed the government’s commitment to integrating climate-resilient WASH systems into Nigeria’s climate adaptation agenda.
Utsev said resilient water and sanitation systems are indispensable to achieving water security, safeguarding public health, improving food security and sustaining economic growth, stressing that Nigeria’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0) presents an opportunity to make WASH a central pillar of the country’s climate response.
“The climate crisis is fundamentally a water crisis,” the minister said, noting that climate change is placing increasing pressure on water resources and sanitation infrastructure across
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