{"id":27862,"date":"2021-05-17T17:43:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=27862"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:43:14","slug":"nairobi-hawker-caught-fetching-sewage-selling-as-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/nairobi-hawker-caught-fetching-sewage-selling-as-clean-water","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi Hawker Caught Fetching Sewage &amp; Selling as Clean Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The dire state of public sanitation in Nairobi County has been exposed in a video that has since gone viral, capturing a hawker fetching sewage and later distributing it as clean water at a Nairobi estate.<\/p>\n<p>The video seen by Africa-press showed a man using a jerrican to\u00a0fetch\u00a0water at a sewage plant in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>The footage captures the same man, believed to be working as a hawker, loading the water jerricans onto a handcart.<\/p>\n<p>The witness who filmed the video reported that the incident occurred at Umoja Three estate and that the\u00a0water was meant for sale as clean water.<\/p>\n<p>Upon contacting the Nairobi Environment Management Authority(\u00a0NEMA), they stated that\u00a0the incident\u00a0would be looked into.<\/p>\n<p>Frequent water shortage in different parts of Nairobi has led to the emergence of\u00a0unregulated water vending businesses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ALERT \u26a0\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Someone please confirm if this is indeed happening at Umoja 3 near Benrose.  via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WRadigo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WRadigo<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Gp03yAibM\">pic.twitter.com\/1Gp03yAibM<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/umoja_news?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@umoja_news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Road Alerts (@RoadAlertsKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoadAlertsKE\/status\/1394229727439826947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The hawkers use handcarts commonly known as \u2018Mkokoteni\u2019 to fetch water. They then distribute it to different households or customers.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate residents trust the vendors who then purchase the water at a price of\u00a0Sh10- Sh20 for per pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Most households in high-density estates &#8211;\u00a0such as Umoja, Eastleigh, Pipeline, and others &#8211;\u00a0solely rely on hawkers as their source of water.<\/p>\n<p>This comes barely two weeks after the\u00a0Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company announced an interruption in the water supply in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>This was due to the road construction going on. The affected area were along Ngong Road, Waiyaki way, Langata Road and Naivasha Road.<\/p>\n<p>According to World Health Organization (WHO), diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, typhoid and even Hepatitis A are linked to contaminated water.<\/p>\n<p>Research showed that in 2018, out of the total deaths that occur in the country 14.75% die owing to diarrheal related diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: The dire state of public sanitation in Nairobi County has been exposed in a video that has since gone viral, capturing a hawker fetching sewage and later distributing it as clean water at a Nairobi estate. The video seen by Africa-press showed a man using a jerrican to\u00a0fetch\u00a0water at a sewage plant in Nairobi. 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