Kiwasco advises customers not to chlorinate tap water

Kendu Bay residents have to go deeper into Lake Victoria to get cleaner water because of the hyacinth weed on the shoreline. [Denish Ochieng’, Standard]

Kisumu Water and Sewerage Company (Kiwasco) has advised its clients against treating tap water with chlorine to avoid consuming too much of the chemical.

Kiwasco, in a message to more than 200,000 clients, said it had taken sufficient measures to treat the water abstracted from Lake Victoria, which is reeling from pollution due to rotting water hyacinth.