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.