MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND WATER RESOURCES.

The Policy Trust or Mandate of the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources is to provide Light and Water to all nooks and crannies of the State. This mandate is being pursued with such vigor and doggedness that in no distant time, the total population of Edo State would have had their villages and towns supplied with light and portable Water. This is what is meant by integrated Rural Development, which is one of the cardinal programmes of this Administration.
The strategies adopted in pursuit of this goal are:

• To identify the Rural Communities that could be electrified and connected to the National Grid;

• To carry out engineering measurement/survey with a view to determine the actual needs of the communities;

• Costing the bills of quality;
• Advising on steps to be taken in actualizing the dream of government;

• To carry out similar surveys (geographical) in the area of Water Supply.
  
  In designing a schedule for water, both short and long term approaches are adopted. The short term approach had to do with provision of Boreholes at some designated points in the towns affected while the main water supply project which had to do with provision of Dams would constitute the long terms approach.