The low level of water in Ndakaini dam is caused by man
The low level of water in Ndakaini dam is caused by man
Many people wrote in the newspapers urging water management bodies to conserve water during last years rainy season but no one heeded the advice. Clean water translate to healthy individuals. A human being needs 8 glasses of water per day.lf Kenyans will miss this precious commodity, their health will be affected. ln Kenya we plan backwards not forward. See now how we have a setback of lack of water in the country. Normally Ndakaini dam pumps 2 million litres of water for use, but now it is pumping only 100,000 litres of water per day as there is a big shortfall. Kenya had a good rainy last year, but the people in charge slept on the job,now Kenya will pay for it. There is even a cabinet minister in charge of water conservation but politics is usually the center stage and we still experience the same problem years in year out. Counties also have ministers tasked with water management and they did not do their jobs well. The only thing counties budgeted well for was travel,loans,hospitality and allowances. Storage of water is a strange phenomenon to counties whose appetite is travelling and enriching themselves. The rich will buy water while the poor will depend on boreholes which are adjacent to sewage and they end up using contaminated water. Let the national government also check the level of other dams like kiambere,masinga,kindaruma etc to ease Kenyans suffering. Where are vendors getting the water they are selling at exorbitant prices to customers? I hope there is no corruption involved? Countries like Israel,Saudi Arabia and Libya are desert countries but are able to manage conserving water for their citizens well. When MCA 's went benchmarking abroad didn't they see this technology ? Water catchment areas should be protected such as Mau and other forest areas which are being depleted of trees at a very alarming situation,causing scarcity of water. Kenyans need water not politics day and night.
By
Veronica Onjoro
Mombasa
Many people wrote in the newspapers urging water management bodies to conserve water during last years rainy season but no one heeded the advice. Clean water translate to healthy individuals. A human being needs 8 glasses of water per day.lf Kenyans will miss this precious commodity, their health will be affected. ln Kenya we plan backwards not forward. See now how we have a setback of lack of water in the country. Normally Ndakaini dam pumps 2 million litres of water for use, but now it is pumping only 100,000 litres of water per day as there is a big shortfall. Kenya had a good rainy last year, but the people in charge slept on the job,now Kenya will pay for it. There is even a cabinet minister in charge of water conservation but politics is usually the center stage and we still experience the same problem years in year out. Counties also have ministers tasked with water management and they did not do their jobs well. The only thing counties budgeted well for was travel,loans,hospitality and allowances. Storage of water is a strange phenomenon to counties whose appetite is travelling and enriching themselves. The rich will buy water while the poor will depend on boreholes which are adjacent to sewage and they end up using contaminated water. Let the national government also check the level of other dams like kiambere,masinga,kindaruma etc to ease Kenyans suffering. Where are vendors getting the water they are selling at exorbitant prices to customers? I hope there is no corruption involved? Countries like Israel,Saudi Arabia and Libya are desert countries but are able to manage conserving water for their citizens well. When MCA 's went benchmarking abroad didn't they see this technology ? Water catchment areas should be protected such as Mau and other forest areas which are being depleted of trees at a very alarming situation,causing scarcity of water. Kenyans need water not politics day and night.
By
Veronica Onjoro
Mombasa
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