…but not a drop to drink.<\/p>\n
On Saturday flooding caused a dam to burst which supplies the water treatment plant for Nairobi. They were estimating that it would take about a fortnight to repair, leaving most of Nairobi without water for that time. Fortunately I have two large water tanks at my flat and I think I can last that long.<\/p>\n
Today however, officials are saying that we should have up to 70% of our water supply back already. Although even when the water supply is supposedly working I often don’t get any water in the kitchen tap, which is the only tap in the house not fed by the tanks.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, there was a programme on the BBC World Service yesterday about water supplies in Kibera – the main slum in Nairobi, which even in the best of times doesn’t have a great water supply. For the next couple of weeks they’ll be getting water delivered in tankers.<\/p>\n
The rains are due to ease in Nairobi, but in the west of Kenya they’re not expecting any let up in the rain just yet, where already a million people have been made homeless by the floods.<\/p>\n
This weekend I’ll get away from the rain, as I go off to Mombasa for a conference where the temperature is in the mid 30s and they have 90% humidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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