The Waste Manager of the Gombe State Environmental Protection Agency, Dr Umar Musa, made this known during an interview with NAN in Gombe.
Mr Musa said that wells, stagnant ponds, and reservoirs were targeted, while areas that fetch water from rivers would get aqua tabs “since they cannot chlorinate a running river or stream.”
He added that they would be given the aqua tab, and the personnel handling the chlorination would teach them how to apply it to their drinking water.
He explained that “chlorine is a measure to mitigate cholera spread because it will destroy pathogens in water, which contain the bacterium vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera infection and other water-borne diseases.”
