Clean Water
According to a report from Water.org, 1.4 million children die yearly from waterborne diseases. Children in sub saharan Africa being the most affected among other regions. Poor sanitation has been the cause to the rising number of deaths. Water For Me And You is a campaign designed to come up with solutions for provision of clean drinking water for children under the age of 5 years . This includes the use of technology and great ideas to provide small quantities of clean water using environment friendly techniques. Providing clean water in Africa has been a problem for long. Groups and organizations alone have failed to providing clean water in Africa, which has forced every individual to be on board. Providing Clean water in Africa can be a reality if we can be serious. By sharing my ideas about accessing clean water, I am satisfied to making this world a better place, hence helping in providing clean water in Africa.
The Horn Of Africa Ground Water For Resilience Project
The Horn of Africa- Groundwater for Resilience Project (HoAGW4R) is a World Bank funded project in collaboration with Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Kenya’s Ministry of Water, Sanitation & Irrigation and State Agencies including WRA, WSTF and Regional Centre for Groundwater Resources, Education, Training and Research.
Clean Water Kenya provides rural Maasai and Kamba Villages in the Great Rift Valley and northeast Kenya simple, easy-to-maintain Portable Water Filtration Systems that cleanse the local drinking water of the bacteria that causes typhoid, cholera, amoebic dysentery, salmonella, E.coli, botulism, giardia, cryptosporidium and other pathogens that are deadly to the Maasai and Kamba people.
May 2013 through Executive Order No. 2/2013 the Ministry of Environment Water and Natural Resources (MEWNR) was established and mandated to undertake protection, conservation and development of environment and natural resources for sustainable development. In 2013, the government, in line with the Constitution, rationalized the portfolio, responsibilities and functions of all the ministries and other government agencies. Consequently, the Ministries of Environment and Mineral Resources, Forestry and Wildlife, Water and Irrigation and Regional Development were merged to form the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.