{"id":7030,"date":"2019-12-06T09:32:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T06:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","slug":"nairobians-grapple-with-water-shortage-as-rains-flood-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/06\/nairobians-grapple-with-water-shortage-as-rains-flood-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Nairobians Grapple With Water Shortage as Rains Flood Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>By Collins Omulo and Brian Okinda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nairobi County residents will, for a while longer, continue to endure water rationing despite the heavy rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city started rationing water in January 2017, the most affected areas including Lang&#8217;ata, Umoja, Githurai and Zimmerman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not much is expected to change soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Treatment <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water executive Vesca Kangogo said the rationing will likely continue until mid-2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Kangogo explained, however, that the measure is not the result of lack of water; she said water treatment systems can only process 526,000 cubic meters daily against a demand of 790,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is estimated that demand increases by 20,000 cubic meters annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The [system] requires that we treat water before releasing it. There will always be a deficit since we cannot release water directly from the source to consumers,&#8221; she said on Wednesday, adding the county cannot do much until the installed production capacity is expanded.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maintenance <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Kangogo added that some areas lack water due to interruptions for routine maintenance and infrastructure improvement by the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We can also have interruptions arising from damages, leakages and sewer-bursts, which cause water from drainages to flow into conveyor pipes. To avoid these, we occasionally shut supply for repairs in order to prevent contamination,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201912050103.html\">Read more&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Collins Omulo and Brian Okinda Nairobi County residents will, for a while longer, continue to endure water rationing despite the heavy rains. The city started rationing water in January&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7031,"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-7030","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\/7030","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=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}