The government of Kenya through the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government has established a Sh 40 million project that will solve sanitation issues in the major prisons in the country.
The Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) for Interior and Coordination of National Government Madam Winnie Guchu made the announcement and said the development of a conventional wastewater management system at the correctional facilities will improve on sanitation through wastewater management and curb pollution to the environment.
โWe have a proposal to build cheaper, more efficient and smaller conventional treatment plants that will only need a half an acre as opposed to sewers that consume a lot of lands,โ said Guchu.
Project details
The project will be funded by Water Sector Trust Fund while Kisumu County, the Kisumu Water Supply and Sanitation Company Limited (KIWASCO) will assist in the management of the plant on completion. This will aid in the treatment of the sewerage serving 10,000 people.
The Sh 40million to be spent is a grant from the Trust Fund and construction is scheduled to commence in October. On inception, the construction would only last 4 months for it to be ready for use as opposed to sewer ponds, which take a year, and requires large tracts of land.
The project upon completion will cater to the prison, the neighboring community, and the schools around. The prison has a population of 7000 including both the staff and the inmates while the immediate community has 3000 people. The plant will convey, treat, dispose or reuse the wastewater and make briquettes.
โOnce the wastewater gets in, the treatment is incubated and it goes through different channels, and by the time the treated water comes out it has no smell and is clean to be discharged back into the environment,โ said Guchu.
