INTEGRATED METHODS FOR DELINEATING GROUNDWATER RESOURCE IN ADO-EKITI, SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA

The growing demand for potable water supply has been a major challenge in Ado-Ekiti, Southwestern Nigeria. Delivery of good quality water by the Ekiti State Water Board to individual consumers in the required quantity and under satisfactory pressure is suspect. Even in areas that are supposedly served by piped water, the supplies to homes are extra-ordinarily intermittent in flow. This inevitably undermines the confidence of consumers, resulting to complaints and possibly the use of water from unhygienic sources. The supplies from the Water Board have proven over the years to be grossly inadequate in meeting the growing potable water demands of this fast developing town.