The Jos–Bukuru Urban region, like many other
growing urban areas, has witnessed population
growth from about 650,839 in 1991 to over 1
million in 2006. The influx witnessed many
people of diverse backgrounds (skilled and
unskilled, educated and uneducated individuals)
who view the city as a base upon which to build
their lives. The local and National governments
seem unprepared and ill equipped to provide the
influx with viable and critically needed
infrastructure, and as a result we have poor water
supply and sanitation. Similarly, people build on
hilltops with no source of public water supply or
other amenities. The quality of urban environment
is under threat from the activities of man in urban
cities such as loading of the earths crust, disposal
of waste on land and into deep wells, and
constant air pollution. The proper application of
geoscience and its principles can ameliorate
some of the problems associated with
urbanization. It is a ready tool in sustainable
development when advantage is taken of the
geologic and engineering properties of earth
materials in solving environmental problems.