Bungoma County Water Policy 2021

Abstract

Managing water involves drawing a plan, designing, construction, implementing, and maintaining water resources or programs. This is done to warrant efficient and effective use of water by the community. Management of water encompasses use of participatory approaches in empowering the communities to guard their water resources. The County’s water demand is currently (year 2020) 58,220m3/day. This demand will surpass 220,027m3/day by the year 2050. The County has seven urban water schemes, twenty rural schemes. The urban water schemes collectively produce approximately 20,550m3/day. However approximately 66% of the production is lost as Non-Revenue Water (NRW) hence only 7,000m3/day (12% of the demand) reaches the consumers. The boreholes and rural water schemes meet 11.8% (6,970m3/day) and 2% (1,164m3/day) of the residents’ water demand respectively after correction for unaccounted for water. Therefore, only 25.8% of Bungoma County’s residents (440,000 people) have access to safe drinking water. This is less than 69% of the global average or 73% rate of access in Africa. It is also less than Kenya’s national average water supply coverage of 57%.