Kenya: Heavy Rain Washes Away Mwingi's NWE Water Pipe

27 October 2011

Hope for 50,000 residents of Mwingi who rely on the Kiambere-Mwingi pipeline to get water after a 23-day shortage, has been hampered by heavy rains which pounded the area on Monday night.

Only hours after the Kiambere Mwingi Water and Sanitaion Company technicians finished fixing three weeks breakdown at the Kiambere dam water intake on Monday evening, overnight downpour caused the flooded Kamuwongo seasonal river to wash away a section of the pipeline.

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