Kenya: Private Investors to Supply Water in Kenya

Nairobi — THE DEBATE over whether the government should privatise the management of water supply in Kenya's major towns took a new twist last week when the government said it preferred private management.

Claiming that this would not amount to commercialisation of the commodity nor to "taking the water away from the poor," the Minister for Water Development, Martha Karua, revealed that the government intended to establish a public-private partnership for urban water management.

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