Vandals cause acute water shortage in Mombasa on X-mas day

Mombasa island residents will spend the festive season without water following a breakdown of the only pipeline that supplies the area.

Water officials attributed the acute shortage to vandalism of the Baricho pipeline at the Nyali Bridge on Monday. The thieves made away with valves and stoppers, forcing the Mombasa Water Supply and Sanitation Company to reroute water to Nyali and Kisauni to avoid waste and to allow repair works.