Aba River River Aba
Mouth
Location
Country	Nigeria
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• coordinates	4°49′22″N 7°29′27″E / 4.8228°N 7.4909°E / 4.8228; 7.4909
Basin features
River system	Imo River

The Aba River is a river in southern Nigeria. A tributary of Imo river that runs through the city of Aba, Nigeria.^[1] Its headwater is in Okpu-Umuobo area (Isiala-Okpu and Mgboko-Umuette autonomous communities) Osisioma Ngwa LGA in the Ngwa heartland.This aba river also known known as waterside. ^[2] The river is largely ignored despite its uniqueness and importance. Activities of local sand dredges who source sharp sand for construction purposes has been keeping the river flowing. ^[3]

Residents, many of whom had previously used the river's resources, asserted that the river was teeming with aquatic life and provided drinking water and other domestic uses for the people of the communities along its banks before the emergence of various businesses that no longer discharge their wastes into the water body in the 1970s.^[4]

Even worse, the river's pollution was increased by the "Ahiaudele" (market of vultures) abattoir and cattle market, which is situated along the river's banks. The river's resources are getting scarcer.^[5]