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NEMA has issued a stern warning to factories in Mavoko town that were discharging their effluent into Athi River.

THE STANDARD OPINION Joannah’s single-handed show-down with private developers in Kiambu forest. [Courtesy] In a macabre murder on Thursday, unknown assassins took the life of Kiambu resident Joannah Stutchbury. International media headlines currently lead with the death of this environmental defender. Who was she, why did she die and who could have sent the killers? Three years ago, this column anonymously captured Joannah’s single-handed show-down with private developers in Kiambu forest. The iconic photo of the woman sitting in an excavator bucket to stop them dredging the wetlands has...

THE STANDARD OPINION Dr Isaac Kalua. A recent World Bank advisory on water management in Kenya has stirred necessary debate on the way we manage water. In the advisory, the World Bank called for new conservation levies and increased regulatory charges for water companies. The proposed conservation levies will go towards the conservation of water resources. This however means water bills will increase, which leaves a sour taste in the mouths of Kenyans who continue to suffer water scarcity and inequality. Against this backdrop, we need to decisively address these twin maladies of water scarcit...

THE STANDARD POLITICS President Uhuru Kenyatta commissioning Uthiru-Muthua health facility in Uthiru. February 12, 2021. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] President Uhuru Kenyatta makes an elaborate tour of Ukambani today after previous postponements. The president is on a development visit of Machakos and Makueni counties, which has been scaled down to cushion locals against risk of Covid-19 exposure. He will inspect key projects, including the multi-billion shilling Konza City in Machakos and Thwake Dam in Makueni. The Ukambani tour comes after it was cancelled twice and amid talk of disagreement ...

THE STANDARD NEWS Water rages past a bridge in Ahero, Kisumu County, after River Nyando broke its banks in April last year. [Dennish Ochieng, Standard] Two Chinese firms are embroiled in a vicious legal battle over a Sh20 billion dam project along the River Nyando in Kisumu County. China Gezhouba, one of the firms that had been eyeing the contract, has moved to the procurement review board to contest the award of the tender to China Jiangxi Economic Cooperation. The National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority in April selected China Jiangxi as the winner of the contract to construct t...