LVNWWDA inaugurate drinking water facilities in Homa Bay

The Lake Victoria South Water Works Development Agency (LVNWWDA) has delivered several new water supply facilities to Homa Bay county in Kenya. The new facilities will be able to supply 8,800 m3 of water per day to the population.

The authority developed a drinking water plant in Got Asego which will treat raw water pumped from Lake Victoria before storage in a reservoir located in Rodi. A linear network will then allow the supply to households.

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Electricity network

The project was part of the government’s priorities to provide citizens with clean drinking water.. Works was done at a budget of US $12.33M which was funded jointly by the Kenyan government and Belgium.

The Kenyan authorities estimate that the new facilities will be able to supply 8,800 m3 of drinking water per day to the residents of Homa Bay. This will be enough to meet the town’s estimated daily water needs of 5,000 m3 for the next 20 years. The residents of the surrounding villages and educational institutions will also benefit from this drinking water service.

Prior to the inauguration of the various facilities, Homa Bay was providing barely 2,500 m3 of drinking water per day to an estimated population of 44,504 due to lack of adequate facilities. Kenya’s other major problem is the instability of its electricity network in some areas. To overcome this handicap in Homa Bay, the Kenyan government decided to equip the new pumping stations and the drinking water plant with solar panels.