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MANIFESTO WEEK: 35 Districts Have Water Coverage Above 80%

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35 districts have their water coverage above 80%, according to the Minister of State for water and environment, Sam Cheptoris.

Cheptoris was delivering a report on the implementation of the NRM Manifesto for the past five years.

“Overall a total of 38,517 villages representing 66% out of the total 57,974 villages in the country have been served with clean water. So far 35 districts have their water coverage above 80%. My sector has managed to construct 132,341 domestic water points countrywide of which 41,112 (deep boreholes), 21,590 (shallow wells), 29,097 (protected spring), 20,306 (PSP/taps) and 20,236 (rain water harvesting tanks) serving 27, 797,316 people. An additional delivery of water to 23,910 wards within towns and municipal councils were served by NWSC under the SCAP-100 and MWE projects,” he said.

Cheptoris added, “The manifesto pleged an annual target of drilling 5,000 boreholes in 5 years at a rate of 1,000 boreholes per year and fitted with handpumps based on their yield. To date, the sector managed to drill 846 boreholes per year translating into 84.6% performance.  These boreholes have helped serve an extra 253,800 people across the country. “

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