Looming water crisis as State shuts off supply from rivers

Officials from the Water Resources Management Authority disconnecting some of the water abstractions in Mt Kenya forest on August 23, 2018. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Communities around the Mt Kenya and Aberdare forests face an imminent water shortage as the Government acts to protect rivers.

For the past week officers from the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and the Water Resources Authority have been enforcing an order by the Water ministry to disconnect all illegal connections from rivers inside the two forests.