Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has announced that Nairobi residents will be getting water supply for two more days following the commissioning of the Northern Collector.
In a statement released on Monday, September 23, Sakaja stated that residents should expect to get water supplied to their homes and estates for four days a week.
Currently, most residents get water supplied to their homes and estates twice a week.
Sakaja explained that this would be possible given that the county would be receiving an additional of over 100 million litres of water from the northern collector project.
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"The Northern Collector Tunnel I project will provide an additional 140 million litres per day to the existing water distribution network reducing the deficit by almost half.
"The governor added that the residents who have been receiving clean water twice a week will now be supplied four times a week. This is after the completion of Northern Collector Tunnel 1," he stated.
On the other hand, he explained that the perennial issues of water supply in Nairobi had been attributed to the low supply and high demand in the city.
The county boss detailed that Nairobi residents were still relying on water projects that were completed many years ago.
"The first source of water (Kikuyu Spring) that produces about 6,000 cubic meters of water was developed between 1904 and 1910.
"The water infrastructures later developed Ruiru and Sasumwa dams that couldn't supply adequate water for city residents. Ndakaini dam which gives Nairobians 84 per cent of water was developed at 525M litres daily but that is not enough, we need 900M litres daily," he added.
