Devolution must take water agenda to a higher level

The sixth Devolution Conference that kicks off in Kirinyaga County tomorrow will address itself to the Big Four agenda plus 1. The additional 1 is water (and sanitation).

The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal Number 6 focuses on water and sanitation whose critical importance is underlined by a few figures whose implications are alarming. Water is a necessity to sustain life but millions of Kenyans struggle daily to find a steady source of it. Currently, 41 per cent of Kenya’s 45 million citizens still rely on hazardous water sources such as ponds, rivers and shallow wells as their primary source.