When AIT News visited Mado Community in Tudunwada Jos in February, 2026, residents queued for hours at a shrinking stream shared with livestock, their only source of water.
Five months later, that hardship has given way to relief. Governor Caleb Mutfwang has commissioned the Mado Mini Water Scheme, bringing safe drinking water to a community that had endured years of scarcity.
AIT’AIT’s Walkyes Kwakfut who covered the commissioning returned and reports on how access to clean water is changing life in the community.
Back on February 14 2026 families and livestock drank from this same stream.
It was all Mado had after wells and boreholes across the community ran dry.
Every bucket came with a wait. The stream flowed slowly, and residents queued for hours to collect enough water for drinking, cooking and other household needs.
When AIT News visited, residents appealed for a lasting solution to a problem they had endured for years.
Five months later, the sound is different.
Following the commissioning of the Mado Mini Water Scheme by Governor Caleb Mutfwang, potable water is now flowing into a community that once depended entirely on that shrinking stream.
Residents say access to clean water has eased the daily struggle for their families, improved hygiene and sanitation, and given them more time for work, school and other productive activities.
While expressing appreciation to the Plateau State Government, they appealed for similar interventions in other communities still struggling with inadequate access to clean water.
(Editor: Ada Ononye)
