Firm wants water thieves handed stiffer punishment to tame vice

Embu Water and Sanitation Company (Ewasco) managing director Hamilton Karugendo with Wasco national general Secretary Mary Ndwiga and Wasco Games local organising committee chairman Dickson Njiru at a press conference on Thursday. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

Embu Water and Sanitation Company (Ewasco) wants the Judiciary to hand stiffer sentences to culprits of water theft in a bid to arrest water losses.

Managing Director Hamilton Karugendo said the company was incurring losses of about Sh8 million annually due to the theft of the treated water it supplies to its consumers.