35 districts have their water coverage above 80%, according to the Minister of State for water and environment, Sam Cheptoris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cheptoris was delivering a report on the implementation of the NRM Manifesto for the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Overall a total of 38,517<\/strong> villages representing 66%<\/strong> out of the total 57,974<\/strong> 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<\/strong> people. An additional delivery of water to 23,910<\/strong> wards within towns and municipal councils were served by NWSC under the SCAP-100 and MWE projects,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/strong> boreholes per year translating into 84.6% <\/strong>performance.<\/strong>\u00a0 These boreholes have helped serve an extra 253,800<\/strong> people across the country. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n RTEAD THE FULL REPORT BELOW<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":23886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n