Kenyan sanitation and water project lands global award

Water and Sanitation Cabinet Secretary Simion Chelugui, with the award that Water Fund won for being the best public service corporation globally. Looking on from right is Water Fund CEO Ismail Shaiye and the board chair, Patrick Kokonya. The organisation was feted in Baku, Azerbaijan. [Courtesy]

A local solution to the sanitation menace and perennial shortage of clean water in urban areas in Kenya has won global admiration.

The programme involves building and upgrading of toilets and construction of small scale decentralised facility to treat human waste from dry and wet toilets through mechanical and biological treatment.