ATTITUDETOWARDS WATER SANITATION AMONG SENIOR BOARDING SECONDARY SCHOOLS STUDENT IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

This assesses the attitudestoward water sanitation among senior boarding secondary school students in Kaduna State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling approach that involved a stratified random sampling technique, simple random sampling technique and purposive sampling techniques was used for this study. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Out of three hundred and eighty one (381) copies of questionnaire administered, three hundred and eighty (380) were valid and used for the analyses. Data collected was analyzed using one sample t test at 0.05 alpha levels. The results revealed that senior boarding secondary school students in Kaduna state do not have significant attitudestowardswater sanitation. It was recommended that the school authorities should monitor the attitudes of senior boarding secondary school students toward water sanitation whenever they are using water at any point for any activities and teachers as a matter of fact should sustain and improve the practice of water sanitation by always reminding the students about the importance of sanitizing water.