Nigerian Pictures


WATER

River in Ibadan

A bucket is always kept full for those days when there is no water.

The water tank is higher than the house so that the owner can have running water on the second floor.

Water tank

Collecting water from the well

Well located by the river.

There is no garbage pick up service so it has been deposited by the river.

Garbage

Six weeks of garbage

Washing barrels that previously held chemicals.

Washing clothes and bathing children down river from the sight where the men are washing the barrels.

Washing clothes and children in Ibadan.

 

Yankari hot springs

Gathering water to drink from the natural spring.

Swimming in the hot springs at Yankari.

Swan's bottled water

Kokodome

Niger river
(Note the small fishing boats.)

When it rains - you wait.

Waiting for the rain to stop in the Onitsha market place.