Nairobi: 10 Estates To Go Without Water For Days After Floods Damaged Major Pipeline

• Ten estates within the sprawling Eastlands area of Nairobi county will have to go without water for a few
• According to the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company, floods swept away a major pipe that is supposed to ensure water got to the estates
• Tassia, Nyayo Estate, Embakasi Village and Park Estate 1 and 2 estates, Pipeline, Plot 10 Estates, Embakasi Jua Kali

Residents of 10 estates within the sprawling Eastlands area are set to go without water for a few days after raging floods swept away a critical pipeline.

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According to the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company, the unfortunate state will affect Tassia, Nyayo Estate, Embakasi Village and Park Estate 1 and 2 estates.

Pipeline, Plot 10 Estates, Embakasi Jua Kali and surrounding areas will also be affected.

“We would like to notify our customers that the water pipeline along Outer Ring Road has been swept away at the Ngong River Crossing at Kware,” Nairobi Water said in a statement.

Torrential rains that have been incessantly pounding Nairobi have flooded and destroyed homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure across the country.

80 people evacuated from Nairobi building

Nairobi county politician Rodriques Mulindi said the occupants of the newly constructed apartment were at risk of losing their lives.

The landlord of the crumbling building asked the politician to let the tenants stay as he promised to rectify the contractor's mess.

Mulindi also disclosed that the occupants of the nearby informal structures were also evacuated.

More about floods in Kenya

• Tourists had to be rescued when a resort they were at got damaged by floods, rendering it inhabitable
• On May 10, 2024, 10 more people died in floodwaters, and government put the number at 179
• A man who got married recently narrated the pain of watching his wife die in floods; he said he had left it all to God
• Kind school owner offered accommodation to travellers stranded at Joska Bridge, which is usually very busy.

Proofreading by Asher Omondi, current affairs journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.

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Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company employees at work to repair the affected pipes.

Nairobi: 10 Estates to Go without Water for Days after Floods Damaged

Nairobi: 10 Estates to Go without Water for Days after Floods Damaged