PROFILE OF OSUN STATE WATER CORPORATION.
Osun State Water Corporation (OSWC) has been in existence since the creation of the State on 27th August, 1991 and backed by the Water Corporation of Osun State Law, 1992. This law was repealed and another legal framework establishing the Corporation, the Osun State Water Sector Law 2015, was enacted.
The Corporation is headed by a General Manager who is responsible to the State Governor via the Chairman of a constituted board’s members by the Executive Governor of the State or the Commissioner for Water Resources, If the Board is not in place.
The Osun State Water Corporation is saddled with the responsibility of supplying reliable and sufficient potable water in an efficient, cost effective and sustainable manner to the satisfaction of our customers. The Corporation manages and operates twelve (12) urban water schemes spread across the state and collect revenue from consumers.
The Water Corporation serves various communities through transmission lines, booster pumping stations and storage reservoirs with about 720km of distribution
pipeline, including 28,931 house connections out of which 5,700 are active and 985 public stand pipes out of which 425 are active. The entire population in terms of households’ service is about 6.7% of the state total population.
The scope of the service provided are sufficiently complex hence its establishment as a separate body known as Water Corporation, outside the operations of Government Departments.
The laws setting it up do not only allow considerable flexibility for high degree of accountability as against the rigid demands of the Civil Service.
It also generates some measure of autonomy that is subject to Government general directives for its operations to ensure the achievement of the desired objectives without sacrificing accountability.
OUR VISION
To be the Leading Water Utility in Africa.
OUR MISSION.
To Supply Reliable and Sufficient Potable Water, in an Efficient, Cost Effective, and Sustainable manner, to the Satisfaction of our Stakeholders.
OBJECTIVES OF THE CORPORATION.
The objectives of the Corporation among others are:
- To provide safe, adequate and affordable water supply services to the residents of the Urban and Semi-urban areas of the State;
- Collaborate with the Ministry responsible for Water Resources to secure efficient use of water resources for conservation and protection in Urban areas, including the preparation of development plans for the areas served by the Corporation;
- Ensure that water service provision is made for domestic and any other use.
FUNCTIONS AND REPONSIBILITIES
- Control and manage all water schemes vested in the Corporation;
- Establish, control, operate and maintain, extend and develop new water schemes as the Corporation may consider necessary for tautology potable water production;
- Ensure that adequate wholesome water is supplied to our various consumers in our urban towns and cities;
- Propose water rates with charges in accordance with Board or Government approved methodology.
- Other functions of the Corporation include, establishment and implementation of standard accounting procedures for all the Corporation assets and liabilities.
- Also, protecting the water resources, assets and facilities of the Corporation from trespass, pollution and other nuisance by any member of the public.
- In addition to this more function of the Corporation are listed out in the water sector Law of 2015.
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