I think surface/shallow well easily accessible quantities go down when in drought.



Neighbor has his own they fetch water using jerrycans

I'd also want to test the water but I dont know where to start without reaching out to the fleecing water organizations. Are there testing kits available?

Borehole water can be very toxic esp where there is no working sewer system. Water in both the boreholes and septic tanks/broker sewers freely mix and the resultant cocktail if filthy.

Davis and Shirtliff?

What sort of question is this papa ? Surely, even from primary school basic maths, one is able to compute what storage capacity, roof area and perhaps even install additional catchment to make sure they are water secure year round ama? If a guy can live in the ARIZONA DESERT and is water secure, jameni what is your excuse?
Let's move out of the stone age Kenyans and get with the times!

Gila gitu ni bole bole my bradza.
All in good timing like water flowing shwuuuuuuuu from gutters to underground tanks in rainy season. A glorious sound!!

Nairobi has become a concrete jungle as everyone builds beacon to beacon. This means the water table will keep getting shallow coz there isnt much area left for rainwater to percolate downwards and recharge the aquifers. If we had good researchers in our universities, by now we would be have projections how long it will take for aquifer to dry up or become too shallow to make economic sense. And then come up with ways to mitigate. For instance, be law, each and every built up plot should have some area reserved for soft landscape where rainwater water percolates to the ground

The problem is not Sonko...the problem lies in those ugly flats hapo nyuma.
My naked eye tells me that one ugly flat hapo nyuma easily has 50 units housing 50 families/bachlors/spinsters (tamaa ita waua). Some roomsin that ugly thing hapo have never experienced sunlight and yet Kenya lies squarely on the Equator. I can wager my balls that the sewage mechanism in those flats is substandard, illegal and most likely broken.

If you research a little deeper you will find out that the same water/sewage infrastructure that was built by either mubeberu government or old Jomo government is the same infrastructure in use today in this neighborhood. Kenyan government has been in total slumber since 1970.

Sonko is just being magnanimous by providing short-term solution because he knows very well that the long term solution is bringing Sany and flattening all those ugly things hapo nyuma and forcing landlords to re-build functional and well planned real-estate. The only other solution is Nairobi county government building a brand new mini city huko Mavoko or Ruai in the same scale as Nova Cidade de Kilamba(google is your friend). Meanwhile, let Kenyans continue eating jeuri yao pole pole

The funniest thing is we are concerned about letting MASSIVE AMOUNTS of rain water percolate into aquifers but not concerned about harvesting said rainwater to meet all our needs with some left over to feed kuku with. Sometimes when I see media crying about drought for 8 months and then cry even harder about floods in the mtaros and streets for the remaining 4 months of the year I do not know whether to cry or laugh hysterically.

No it will not but its abit late.

Is the law barring landlords and home owners from harvesting water still operational?

Idealy almost every estate with over 100K people should have its own reservoir, managed by the water company instead of those 12K 10K tanks that hoard water

I also found small places I had never heard of in Eastlands that also never lack water. Example is an Estate called Pioneer near Buruburu.