Irrigation is a driver for sustaining food security in northern Nigeria. It provides food, employment, income and means of livelihood.This is essentially due to the scanty rainfall in the region coupled with the periodic droughts experienced. Consequently the then governments established irrigation projects for the efficient use of the scarce water resources.Thus the Kano River irrigation Project was constructed on the Hadejia -Jamaare River in 1976.Since then the project was functional, however, with increase in population, industries, domestic and urban water uses made water resources for...