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Nairobi bets on new dam projects to end water supply crises EDWIN MUTAI Nairobi residents have been subjected to water rationing and irregular water supply since 2017. But this is set to change within the next five years under an elaborate plan being laid down by different agencies in the city. Athi Water Works Development Agency managing director Michael Thuita says the plan involves bringing online three new dams Kariminu II, Maragua IV and Ndarugo which will allow the water agencies to pump in an additional 320,000 cubic metres of water daily to the city in the short-term. The projects will supplement water that will be pumped to the city via the completed Northern Water Collector Tunnel, which will supply 140,000 cubic metres daily. This will see a water supply deficit to the city, which currently stands at 350,000 cubic metres, plugged and a surplus left. With demand estimated to be increasing by 20,000 cubic metres every year, the deficit will ....
Q&A on Nairobi Water Scarcity with NCWSC Managing Director Sunday Nation. Mukuru Kwa Njenga residents have been unable to access clean drinking water for months due to collusion between your officers and cartels. Please help us. Eric Ambuche, Embakasi South Largely, we have a water deficit since our optimal production per day is 525,600 cubic metres against an estimated demand of 830,000 cubic metres. This has necessitated the rationing of water in the whole city through our equitable distribution programme that ensures optimal supply to all customers. Special attention is given to informal settlements like Mukuru as we have a fully-fledged department to focus on those areas. Since the onset of Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the company with support of national government through Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) and the Nairobi County government made deliberate intervention of supplying free water to the informal settlements. ....