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Citizen’s action groups force water thieves to close shop

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The Water Action Groups (WAG) will also monitor and report to the water service providers on the quality of water, its availability, and any other consumer concerns. Stunned by the over two billion shillings lost by water companies through illegal connections, leakages and unbilled customers, the water regulatory authority has set up a team of citizens who will monitor and file reports on such connections and other problems facing the water sector.

The new initiative where citizens, in confidence, report on their neighbours, employees of water service providers involved in illegal connections business or those who take too long to rectify a leaking pipe, is being piloted in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Kakamega.

 

Investing in sanitation and clean water makes shilling sense

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School Children testing the quality of water at Nairobi RiverRecent reports of cholera outbreaks in Turkana and parts of Nyanza are clear indicators that our water quality is compromised and a source of killer diseases.

This year’s World Water Day, whose theme was Clean Water for a Healthy World brought home the painful reality that millions of Kenyans and more than 1 billion people in developing countries are forced to rely on unsafe drinking water.

 

Poisonous Snakes on the prowl as thousands of vaccines dock in

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Poisonous Snakes on the prowl as thousands of vaccines dock inHundreds of Kenyans are dying or getting their limbs amputated after snakebites even as dozens of doses of anti-venom vaccines lie unutilized in government hospitals, some within a kilometre from their homes.

Those who have been amputated after failing to get the vaccine are instead trooping to Kenya Wildlife Service to seek compensation.

 

Scientists want Kenyans to keep snakes as pets

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Poisonous Snakes on the prowl as thousands of vaccines dock inCan you imagine keeping a snake, an animal considered by millions of people as evil and of deceit character as a pet? This is exactly what officials at a government outfit who care for snakes are requesting Kenyans to do.

Concerned with the high numbers of snakes dying due to the current cold weather or those being killed by people in Nairobi, officers at the National Museums of Kenya are now appealing to those who find snakes in their houses to treat them humanely and as pets.

 

Kenya to embrace agroforestry

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Kenyan farmers will soon be required to plant trees on at least 10 per cent of their agricultural land.
almost half of all farmed landscapes worldwide currently include significant tree cover
Kenyan farmers will soon be required to plant trees on at least 10 per cent of their agricultural land.

According to the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, this will be the only way to mitigate the effects of climate change.

 
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Call for Papers for the Media & Diversity Journal

The Media and Diversity Journal is a research-based and peer-reviewed quasi-academic journal published three times a year in the months of April, August and December. It is published by the University of Nairobi’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the African Woman and Child Feature Service.

The Media and Diversity Journal (MDJ) is inviting submissions for its special issue on Identity and Conflict planned for December 2010.

Find out more on the MDJ and the Call for Papers

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