Thanks for the education @Kaigangio.
I recently visited my mothers shagz in Makindu and saw that Makindu river dried a long time ago and I remember swimming in the said river. What is viability of these dams if our rivers are drying up as time goes on?

There are two frames of mind we are facing in our country today: Politics and development and politics of development. On one hand, a tunnel is to be constructed linking some rivers and supposed to collect a given amount of water for storage at ndakaini. From there, a new water treatment works is to be built, ensuring that the supply to nairobi will rise to cater for demand. A politician comes up saying they drew those plans while in government thus should get credit for the same, next day he says the plans would cause desertification downstream as all water would be diverted away from the river. Which politics is this, as per the above headings?
The northern water collection project is ongoing ( https://www.capitalfm.co...-140mn-litres-of-water/ ). this would solve part of the problems of Nairobi and water, but this alone will not help. I feel the blunder back then was allowing for low-density population areas in nairobi to be converted into high density population areas (Kilimani, Lavington, Lileleshwa, etc) instead of venturing out of nairobi by ensuring there are adequate and on-time transport solutions to cater for the guys living outside nairobi (Guys from thika, ruiur, machakos, Limuru/naivasha, etc), plus water and electricity.

Does the polluted Nairobi river flow into this dam?

Why are you advocating for urban sprawl(horizontal growth) instead of vertical growth? Cities are meant to be contained in small areas but dense with population. Kilimani, Lavi, Kibera are all areas within the urban core they should be high density areas. The unfortunate thing about nairobi is that it was planned by and for 'middle class sluts'


The building of dams and the urban development was also done in a way to segregate the population. That's why the leafy suburbs have adequate water supply and the mad-max Eastlandos buy borehole water. Those low density areas were just a white privilege thing carried over by the african elite. Many cities just have much denser populations in the urban core.

Water is an abundant resource, the question is just distribution. Surely even the technology for distributing water to city blocks is 2000 years old from the Roman times. Limiting access to water is just our african way of maintaining 'ubabi'

Seasonal rivers from Kitui, Makueni & Kajiado will be tapped. During rainy season/flash floods a lot of water flows on this seasonal rivers to Indian Ocean.

If you have visited Kitui, Makueni in a good rainy season you will agree that the only thing that land lacks is water and that it is fertile and productive. So the dam will help in irrigation so that you can enjoy you sweet sun kissed water melons from Makueni/Kitui in Nairobi.