The Lagos State Government has warned borehole operators to receive the mandatory permits or threat having their services sealed and dealing with prosecution.
The Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission (LASWARCO) stated drilling boreholes and extracting groundwater with out authorisation might contaminate underground water, trigger land subsidence and threaten the state’s water assets.
The warning comes amid issues over groundwater air pollution in Lekki.
In August 2025, the Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources, Mahmood Adegbite, warned that residents within the space might be consuming contaminated water due to insufficient wastewater remedy.
Mr Adegbite, who spoke at a stakeholders’ assembly, known as for correct wastewater remedy to forestall additional contamination and cut back the danger of waterborne illnesses, in accordance to Radio Nigeria Lagos.
Lagos started regulating borehole drilling and groundwater extraction in 2022 to curb air pollution and handle its underground water assets.
The then Executive Secretary of LASWARCO, Funke Adepoju, acknowledged that the regulation lined groundwater abstraction, consumption, provide and distribution.
In its newest assertion posted on Facebook on Thursday, LASWARCO famous that the Lagos State Environmental Management and Protection Law, 2017, empowered it to regulate borehole drilling, groundwater extraction and water provide providers.
The fee’s Executive Secretary, Oluwabukola Adeyemo, stated anybody intending to drill a borehole or extract groundwater should first receive the required permits.
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“Drilling or abstracting groundwater without LASWARCO authorisation is illegal and punishable under the Law,” Ms Adeyemo stated.
She acknowledged that the fee would seal services working with out the required authorisation and prosecute offenders.
Ms Adeyemo urged residents and group leaders to report illegal borehole drilling and unauthorised groundwater extraction.
Complaints could be made by way of LASWARCO’s hotline on 0816 878 2223 or at Block 19, third ground, Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.
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