The Niger State Government has sealed a sachet water factory following air pollution complaints from residents of the surrounding community. The residents had petitioned the Commissioner of ...

The Lagos State government has denied reports that it has placed a ban on sachet water. The Minister of the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made this clarification on Sunday in a ...

During the raid, officials confiscated over 2,500 bags of sachet water that were ready for distribution. The remaining stock was destroyed on-site, and the factory sealed off.

A retail water seller, Mrs. Vera Osiyemi, said that sachet water had been the best way of curbing cholera. “I don’t think it is going to be possible. This is what everyone consumes.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in Niger, has sealed a sachet water factory in Kontagora area of the state over non-compliance with approved health standards.

She demonstrated her findings by holding sachets of water from brands such as Alpha and Omega, Kegonis, Al-Nurain, Asig, and Concept—all produced by the same illegal operator.

One of its representatives said: “Pure water is sold for N50 now, and it is even going up to N100 per one. At our own end, there’s nothing we can do. The cost of production is high.

He asked me to come to his house in Badagry. When I visited him, he told me that he and some people were planning a robbery operation at a sachet water factory in Igando and he asked me to join them.

In Ghana there are many brands of sachet water. The bags are sealed, single, 500 ml plastic sleeves which are filled with water from the municipal system or private wells.

The Association of Table Waters Producers (ATWAP) has said the price of pure water may be sold for N100 per sachet owing to the inflation in production materials.

Moussa Ndoye, a 28-year-old beachgoer in Senegal’s capital Dakar, gulps down the water from two plastic sachets in quick succession and throws them in the sand. “This is our rubbish bin,” he ...