Federal Ministry of Water Resources (FMWR) is the main regulatory body in the water sector. It has the primary role / rights to regulate, develop, and license all water operators in Nigeria.
Founded: 1976
Website: www.waterresources.gov.ng
Reason: To enforce Federal laws relating to water resources management and development
Function:
- To make regulations particularly for the control of groundwater use
- Grant licences for abstraction, construction and operation of bore holes and wells
- General planning for development and administration of water resources of the nation
Departments: For the ministry to execute these functions, it created some departments namely:
- Dept. of Planning, Research and Statistics
- Dept. of Reform Coordination & Service Improvement
- Dept. of Irrigation and Drainage
- Dept. of Water Supply
- Dept. of Water Quality Control & Sanitation
- Dept. of Dams and Reservoir Operations
- Dept. of River Basin Operation & Inspectorate
Note: This doesn’t include usual departments that organisations normally have.
Dept. of Hydrology and Hydrogeology is now an agency
