{"id":4964,"date":"2019-08-29T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"high-water-losses-dim-kenyas-hope-of-universal-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/29\/high-water-losses-dim-kenyas-hope-of-universal-access\/","title":{"rendered":"High Water Losses Dim Kenya&#8217;s Hope Of Universal Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Business Daily<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High levels of piped water loss are hurting expansion to\nhomes, a new industry report shows, shining the spotlight on a biting cash flow\nchallenge facing utilities as demand increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A survey by Water Services Regulatory Board (Wasreb)\nestablished that 41 percent of the 428 million cubic metres (units) produced in\nthe year under review did not generate any income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means 175.48 million units (175.48 billion litres)\nof water went to wastage from a business perspective, slightly reduced from\n182.7 billion litres or 42 percent of total water production of 435 million\nunits in the 2016-17 financial year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result of 1.61 percent drop in water production in\nthe 12 months through June 2018 compared with a year earlier, earnings by\nutilities fell Sh881 million or 4.28 percent to Sh19.7 billion from Sh20.6\nbillion previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The findings, based on feedback from 88 utilities (86\npublic and two private), suggests that more than half of water pumped by firms\nin 14 counties in the review year was not billed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a rise from 12 counties which experienced more\nthan 50 percent water loss a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water loss in Siaya was at 70 percent of production\nfollowed by Homabay, Kwale and Baringo with 67, 66 and 59 percent respectively\nof the water they pumped not being billed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/High-water-losses-dim-Kenya\/3815418-5251766-s9l46mz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily High levels of piped water loss are hurting expansion to homes, a new industry report shows, shining the spotlight on a biting cash flow challenge facing utilities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}