Saturday, June 03, 2006

TIME HAS COME TO DEMAND FOR CLEAN AND SAFE DRINKING WATER

It is no longer secret that water is life. However, this essential resource can be at the same time the main source of death if it is not treated with care where it is prone to pollution and misuse. In kenya today we are faced by a gigantic problem, which is steming from a variety of indirect impact on our water bodies and catchment areas.
Due to urbaniztion, intensive agricultural activities, high population growth rate, deforestation and destruction of ground cover, much of the water in Kenya today is very un safe for drinking. This problem has been ignored for a long time by those charged with the responsibility and duty of water management, to an extent that wherever you go one is afraid to drink water because of the danger inherent. This problem is not only a Central Imenti where we boast of being blessed with a stream every 4 miles to almost every corner of our beautiful country. This problem is not un solvable but the problem is poor leadership coupled without incompetency and lack of patriotism. Time has come for the people of Central Imenti and Kenya at larger to think forward by resolving to demand clean and safe drinking water among other things.

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