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Dry taps for Nairobi as Sasumua Dam treatment plant is shut down

Nairobi will, for the next few days, experience water shortage after Sasumua Dam Treatment was shut down yesterday.

The Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company announced that the shutdown had been occasioned by a massive landslide in Karemenu River inside the Aberdare Ranges Forest. Sasumua Dam Treatment supplies 11.6 per cent of water to the Nairobi City County population.

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