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.

For example, you should only take up for five sachets of Dioralyte per day, according to the brand, while Liquid I.V. recommends drinking no more than one sachet mixed in 500ml of water per day.

Water from sachets, sold on the streets, could be fueling cholera infections and outbreaks among populations in cities across Sub-Saharan Africa, researchers from Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

NAN reports that a unit price of sachet water, popularly known as “pure water” was recently hiked by more than 100% and is now being sold at ₦50 from ₦20.

NAN reports that Tokunbo Wahab, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, during a stakeholders’ workshop recently announced plans to ban SUPs and sachet water by January 2025.