Water, water everywhere, so let’s rejoice

A man jumps over flooded pavement to only land on uncollected garbage at Imenti House in Nairobi on Moi Avenue after a heavy downpour on May 12, 2021. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The Kenya Water Institute in South “Sea” was deluged this week.

Kenyans responded with derision: we now know where Nairobi’s water comes from, they said. There was that famous quip from some politician that water does not come from fountains in the mountains, but from the skies. And the clear Nairobi skies have been producing plentiful of rain of late.