Despite the recent attention being paid to water supply and sanitation (WS&S) Sector by the democratically elected Nigerian Government, WS&S coverage is still low. Water supply coverage in the urban area is 50%, small-town-20% and rural area - 10% (FMWR, 2000). Apart from these low figures, the average per capital delivery to the urban population is only 32 litres per capita per day (lpcd), 25 lpcd for small-town and 10 lpcd for rural as against the minimum specified by World Health Organization (WHO) of 100 lpcd. Sanitation coverage is even worst with urban - 40%, small-towns - 15%, and rural - 5%. Various reasons have been advanced for the poor sector performance, which includes poor management strategies and insufficient technical skill. The objectives of this study were to develop some management options for the integration of socioeconomic and environmental aspects of WS&S project in small-towns and to develop set of procedures, rules, tools and relationships to facilitate the exchange of information among the major actors in the sector in order to improve performance in the sector. The study among other things provides the blend between 'top-down' and the 'bottom-up' management approaches which allows for active participation of all the major stake holders of the Sector -
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