Our taps shouldn’t run dry

Taps don’t just run dry. They become dry because of a series of factors and choices spanning years, which we must now interrogate and stop treating the symptoms of occasional water scarcity at the expense of sustainable water management.

Kenyans started the New Year with the gloomy announcement that Nairobi will be hit by a four-month long water rationing. This rationing is largely occasioned by water shortage at Ndakaini dam whose capacity is well over 70 million cubic metres yet the dam currently holds a paltry 49 per cent of that capacity. Clearly, we haven’t seen anything yet considering our population increase.