The 171st reminder.... to the PERSON/S CONCERNED

Since yesterday, there's no water. Even in those water kiosks! Why?

And it is specifically for this reason that a lot of environmentally detrimental actions take place. People, out of sheer desperation, end up digging boreholes and wells trying to access this precious fluid. Officialdom in the form of our water ministry, allows such things to happen as it has abdicated it's responsibility to supply the residents with clean reliable water.

Just in our so-called Municipal Estate, which now has at least 3 houses/blocks of flats and one mosque which are privately owned, there are numerous boreholes and at least one well. The latest borehole is being dug at one of the blocks of privately owned flats not 20 meters from one that has been dug using CDF money. In the process the whole neighbourhood has to put up with industry like noises from the racket that this boring machine makes. I wonder how long it will take before they eventually get to the water? Or rather for how many days are we going to have to endure this racket?

Not to mention the fact that our ground water system is being over used. What does that spell for the environment? Is our Environment Minister, Mr. John Michuki, listening?

And why does this happen? Because, our overflowing water bodies, other than having umpteen meetings in a week and thereby getting 'sitting' allowances, are doing absolutely NOTHING to improve water delivery. Isn't there somebody out there who holds these people accountable?

It would seem that where these water bodies are concerned, money flows more freely (into their pockets, of course!), than in our pipes and now even the water kiosks which have been reducing Mombasa into a giant village, seem to have run dry. Why?

What exactly are these bloated organizations doing to alleviate our dehydrated condition?