Key Sectors
- Infrastructure
- Education
- Youth, Sports and Recreation
- Security
- Communication and Governance
- Water and Sanitation.
- Health, HIV and Aids
- Industries,Trade & Tourism
- Agriculture,Livestock & fisheries.
- Gender and children.
- Physical Planning and Housing
- Social Cohesion and IDPs.
- Economic Empowernment
For more Information on Health, Contact:
John K.Mbugua - P.H.O
Kikuyu Town Council
Water and Sanitation
Situation/Challenges
- Current Population 279,970 people
- Water demand 48,277M3/day, current supply-27,300M3/DAY
- Population forecast by 2030 - 734,840. People
- 2030 water demand-133,015M3/DAY
- Currently there is a 50% deficit.
Interventions/Solutions.
Quick Wins
- Assessment of water situation through a feasibility study
- Rain Water harvesting awareness creation, funding for storage facilities through CDF and other funders and make it mandatory for all building plans to have a rain harvesting plan
- Establishment of water kiosks at trading centres where water is scarce.
- Encouragement on usage of shallow wells.
- Operationalise all non operational bore holes
- Mapping of all boreholes-to prioritize on water needs.
- Consensus building with private/self help water projects and Kikuyu water co. Limited.
- Re-afforestation and discouraging eucalyptus at wetlands..
- Sanitation- Exhauster of Kikuyu water to be used by building owners.
Long Term
- Building of dams
- Mweteta river-pumping/gravity
- Tigoni –gravity-kiambaa
- Ondric swamp-pumping
- Rungiri dam-pumping(ownership dispute)
- Explore other sources of energy
- Drill
- Wind mill
- Solar panel
- Water Recycling
- Sewage system for Kikuyu Township and its environments
- Re afforestation