Water Engineers anyone?
I can’t say I’m too shocked to hear that Kenya gets enough rainfall to supply up to 7 times its current population. After seeing the floods in the Coast and North Eastern Kenya over the past few weeks, there’s no doubt that we in Kenya get quite a bit of water.
Question is what to do with it. Apart from Hydro Electricity and Rice Farming, there’s no real use being put to the lots of water (apart from consuming it of course).
I wonder if there’s any institution/organisation that is planning/is doing anything towards water harvesting. I say institution because the government seems to be preoccupied in other things – elections mostly.. How I wish somehow that the running of government and the policy making bit could work properly and independently.
Some university students and professors could actually take up this and turn it into a research project, get relevant info.. apparently the technology is out there that allows economic water harvesting. This could be a way of bridging the LARGE GAP between University and Society/Business/Improving Life in Kenya ?
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You might want to check out the Water Resources Management Authority (WRMA, http://www.wrma.co.ke) that deals with such issues among others and has its HQ in NHIF Building, Nbo.It s true this could be a nice research project but I guess funding is always the issue and there are lot of qualified engineers in Kenya who would do any kind of feasibility study or even try out a few technologies if someone comes and pays them for doing just that. Let me inquire about the water harvesting guidelines that already exist…isn’t it that all new buildings in Kenya are already supposed to have rain gutters installed? Sijui about groundwater recharge though with all that harvesting…
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http://www.wrma.co.ke
A very good question you ask there. am a student at the UoN studying Civil Engineering and I have been feeling this tugging at my heart to venture into the whole area of water engineering. Kenya receives enough rainfall and therefore should not be a water scarce country as it is classified. the major question should be how to distribute the resources that are plenty in some areas while non-existent in others… Any ideas which do not include the government are what I’ll be seeking to pursue.
the site should rather be http://www.wrma.or.ke/ try this
I have the same sentiments as concerns the issue of water in Kenya, having been trained as a Water Engineer, Kenyatta university, I would like to be hooked up the like minded people in this country as pertains to water in Kenya with zero involvement of our ‘Government’. Any ideas…………….
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Am a student, Water Engineer, Egerton University. I would like to follow this up. If you don’t mind, give me the reference to this moving fact please.
Otherwise i know this country has what it takes to provide water to each and every square meter of our territory.