The challenges of clean water in Nairobi
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- Clean water used in Nairobi originates from Ndakaini Dam in Gatanga, but rarely reach most homes
- The source of Nairobi water is just a few kilometers away from the City, Ndakaini Dam in Gatanga.
- But it astonishes how more than 70% of homes in the city are without clean water.
- Many cartels have diverted the water for illegal commercial purposes
- A number of individuals have illegally diverted the clean water for commercial purposes, for businesses like car wash, swimming pulls and selling the precious commodity using water tracks.
- The sewage wastes in Nairobi also end up into the rivers and find way into homes as drinking water.
- Did you know where the sewage wastes from Nairobi end to?
- No I didn't know, where does it end to?
- The Ruai sewage plant releases the treated wastes into Nairobi River.
- All the sewage waste in Nairobi goes to Ruai where there is a sewage plant. After being treated, the waste is released to Nairobi River which goes and connects to Athi River and then Tana River.
- Nairobi river goes and connects to Athi River and the Tana River down stream.
- Residents living down stream on the edges of Athi River and Tana River, all the way to Indian ocean, use the water for domestic purposes not knowing that it emanates from Ruai sewage plant.
- People living by these rivers, consume the water not knowing its origin and the health hazards.
- And the fact that people living along Athi and Tana River are exposed to serious health hazards because of the water they consume, proper methods of disposing the sewage wastes must be identified as well.
- Clean water is a basic need and the government should make it available for all its citizen.
- And residents of Ruai mainly rely on borehole water for lack of clean piped water, hence the high number of stained teeth by most residents, because the water in salty.
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