A section of Nairobi County is set to experience water interruption water interruption this week following the shutdown of the Dagoretti and Uthiru water pumps.
Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company limited Managing Director Engineer Nahashon Muguna announced the water shut down will start from 6 am on Wednesday 11 th and end on Friday 13th at 6 am.
Affected estates include Upper Kabiria, Mithongo, Kamwaya, Kahuho, Ngina and Kikuyu Roads and parts of Gatanga Road, Amboseli Road, Suna Estate, Sohill City Estates and its environs. The whole of Kawangware 56 and 46, Congo, lower parts of Macharia road and environs and Ndwaru Rod and environs will also be affected.
Others are Uthiru, Mountain View Estate, Kangemi, Thiongo Road and its environs, the whole of Karen, Waithaka, Gachui, Kirigo, Dagoretti Market, Mariguini and its environs, the whole of Riruta Satellite, Kagondo and Muhuri Road.
Installation of new equipment
โWe would like to inform our customers that there will be an interruption of water supply for customers served from Uthiru and Dagoretti Reservoirs due to scheduled shut down of the Dagoretti and Uthiru pumps at Kabete Water Works Pumping Station,โ reads the notice.
Muguna explained that the water supply interruption is a result of an ongoing installation of new equipment for Dagoretti and Uthiru pumps as well as commissioning of two new pumps to boost water supply from Kabete Reservoirs to Uthiru Reservoir.
โThe shutdown will facilitate installation of suction mains and delivery headers at the Dagoretti and Uthiru pumps at Kabete pumping station,โ he noted.
The infrastructural development is being done as the company prepares to transport more water to Karen and other areas, through the Kabete-Uthiru-Karen pipeline, when the Northern Collector Tunnel water project is completed.
The water project, set to be completed this December, will pump in at least 140,000 cubic metres of water to Nairobi in a bid to bridge the water supply deficit to more than four million city residents. Affected residents have been urged to reserve and use water sparingly before and during the period of interruption. Nairobi residents residing from the western side of the county will be affected by the latest interruption.
