Well, it seems that the damage done by a truck that hit a water pipe in Chamgamwe, has been 'fixed', though, nothing has yet been done about our waterlessness in the many areas which never get water or it appears in a haphazard manner - now you see it, now you don't!
The neighbourhood (umpteenth), borehole - the one which is less than 20 meters from a CDF sponsored one, is still going on..... The racket from this activity goes on everyday and has been going on for at least two weeks, now. One wonders when they will, if they will, that is, strike water. Why are the various water bodies concerned, allowing this borehole to continue? Considering that it is not environmentally sound to dig/bore one within a kilometer's radius of an existing one? And there's one just a few meters away!
What a lawless and environmentally unfriendly lot we are! No one cares about what we do to our environment, as long as we get what we want (water!), by hook or by crook. Most of the times it's the later means. And the water providers couldn't care less either, since, starting from the Ministry level all the way down, they've abdicated their responsibility to provide and manage this resource in a sustainable and responsible manner.
Therefore, the residents of Coast Province will suffer the consequences of this short sightedness, in the near or not so far future. Despite there being an alternative to our water less predicament by investing in a desalination plant, our 'officials' are behaving like there is no other alternative and allow the most questionable practices by the residents who in turn cannot and do not seem to care about the results of their actions.
One of the reasons that residents have adopted this way of behaviour is because they get little or no action or sympathy from these so-called water officials. And should they even be 'available', the end result will be that the resident's waterless condition will not improve. In fact, it will get worse! My area of Kizingo is a case in point.
This lot (the water officials which includes the Ministry), couldn't care less that despite having sent them a petition nearly 2 years ago signed by over 900 residents and this being the 172nd 'reminder', NOTHING, seems to have changed over the years and we, despite paying monthly phantom water bills (those of us who still retain a meter), do not get even a drop of water coming through our pipes! Why should this be so? What are all these 'officials' and the Ministry doing about this? And why aren't they answering questions and open to the suggestions made in the petition?
And if they can't answer our questions, can they please resign as they are NOT capable of doing the job that we, the resident's have 'employed' them, for? We don't want our money going down the drain instead of the water, they are supposed to provide!
Most of the postings are to do with what an average Kenyan citizen has to deal with, in the country, to survive. They go through and are treated with a lot of injustice, where very few in 'officialdom', will take notice of their problems or even do anything about them. Hence, this blog and the belief in, 'One learned man is harder on the devil than a thousand ignorant worshipers' - Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
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