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| Free flowing sewer heading to River Chania |
People living on the lower parts of Thika are faced with
life-threatening water-borne pathogens carried by raw human waste such
as cholera, typhoid, dysentery, schistosomiasis, hepatitis A or
intestinal nematode infections following raw sewage being discharged
into River Chania through open defecation from the old county government
sewerage plant behind Kimathi Estate. The same applies to Thika Cloth
Mills who are also releasing industrial wastes into the same river.
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| The old sewerage plant that is releasing the human waste into the river |
This is not an isolated case since it always happens everytime their sewerage pump malfunctions.
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| River Chania as it flows downstream |
It
is common knowledge that untreated sewage poses a major risk to human
health. It also destroys aquatic eco-systems, threatening human
livelihoods, when the associated biological oxygen demand and nutrient
loading deplete oxygen in the water to levels too low to sustain life.
Over to you Mr. Governor.
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