
The Ministry of Environment and Sanitation is committed to implementing impactful environmental projects across Imo State. Our initiatives focus on waste management, conservation, climate action, and community engagement.

January 1, 2021
January 12, 2025
In 2021, Governor Uzodimma’s administration carried out a massive rehabilitation /overhaul of the Otamiri Headworks, a key surface water source for the state. Otamiri Waterworks (which now has state-of-the-art physiochemical and bacteriology laboratories for water analysis, testing, and treatment) was originally constructed by the former governor of Imo state, the late Chief Sam Mbakwe (1979-1983) at the total cost of $34.7 million, but was officially commissioned on Friday 16 May 1986 by Navy Captain Alison Amaechina. Years later, the same Otamiri Treatment Plant degenerated into a site for open grazing and open defecation as a result of poor maintenance, maladministration and abandonment. Yes, the site became an open defecation and open grazing site in 2019 until the Governor Hope Uzodimma returned it to a standard water treatment plant with installed capacity of 60 million litres of safe water daily. Otamiri Headworks was the first public facility Governor Uzodimma visited upon assuming office.