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Local solution that won WaterFund two UN awards in a row

Ambassador Mary Khimulu, Chairlady Water Fund Board of Trustees, received the award on behalf of WaterFund. [Courtesy]

For the second time in a row, a local solution to sanitation challenges and perennial shortage of clean water in Kenya's urban areas has won global admiration.

The programme that began six years ago and involves building and upgrading of toilets and construction of small scale decentralised facilities to treat human waste from dry and wet toilets through mechanical and biological treatment, earned the WaterFund another global award.

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