Bauchi—Water vendors in Bauchi metropolis are making brisk business as a result of acute water scarcity being experienced in the town.

A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, monitoring the situation, reports that most of the public taps in the town, had gone dry in the last one week, just as the cost of a Jeri can of water increased from N20 to N50.

Malam Umaru Ali, a water vendor, told NAN that they had to pay huge amount of money to fetch water from private bore hole owners, as such were forced by the situation to effect 100 per cent increase in the price of jerican .

“The public boreholes where we fetch water had gone dry and the commercial borehole operators charge us exorbitantly due to the cost of diesel.

“Since we are in business to make profit and feed our families, we have no option that to transfer the cost to our customers,” he said.