The Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company on Sunday announced that there will be intermittent water supply within Nairobi County.
According to a statement, the water supplier noted that the ongoing flooding has damaged some of the supply pipelines, which will result in some areas receiving water with low pressure.
“The rationed supply, done through the Equitable Water Distribution Program, will ensure each customer receives water at least once a week,” Nairobi Water said.
These areas, which will be significantly affected by the water rationing, include Fedha 1 Estate, Infinity Estate on Kagundo Road, Tumaini Estate, The Whole of Tassia, Avenue Park 1 & 2 Estates, Nyayo Embakasi Estate, Kware Road area Kwa Ndege, Lower Plot 10, Lexo and surrounding areas.
Other areas include Ngomongo, Korogocho, Matopeni-Kayole, Brookside Grove Westlands, Wangapala and Iregi Roads - Parklands, Cotton Road and Dennis Pritt Road - Kilimani, Chieko in Kasarani, Kamiti Road near Jacaranda, Kahawa Barraks and Kenyatta University.
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Further, the Water supplier said Nairobi is limited to the installed production capacity as the daily demand scales up to 900 million liters compared to the 525.6 million liters produced from the four water sources: Kikuyu Springs, Ruiru, Sasumua, and Thika Dams.
"The four have an installed maximum daily production capacity of 440 million, 61 million, 20 million and 4 million litres respectively.”
"This means that even when we have our dams overflowing, the water supply will remain constant- We cannot go beyond the installed production capacity."
City dwellers have been urged to use water sparingly.
