Saving water is securing our future
Story By Wanyua Mary.
Every
day, millions of people across a spacious swathe of Kenya struggle to get
access to clean and safe drinking water. Lack of which continues to claim the
lives of millions of people every year while condemning millions more to a life
of poor health and diminished prospect.
There
is no resource more precious than water. However, this is the most misused,
abused, misallocated, and misunderstood resource in Kenya. Safe drinking water,
healthy and intact natural ecosystems, and a stable food supply are a few of
the things at stake as our water supply is put under greater and greater
stress.
Many
people have had water-saving etiquette pumped into them time and again, so
hopefully we can make a good case for conserving our water through everyday
water-saving strategies as well as putting in place long term measures that
will ensure that Kenya will never go dry.
Let’s
not wait to be educated by our government and or local organization but lets
take the initiative of seeking the solutions facing us. If every Kenyan can
learn how to use water sustainably as well as take the initiative of conserving
and protecting our catchments, lack of water can be history.
As
we have all witnessed, many people still don’t value our catchments hence the
increased cases of forest fires. Unless strict measures are put in place our
forest, wildlife and water will all be a done deal condemning us to a life of
misery.
As
we celebrate the World Water Day, I urge all Kenyans to mark this day by
planting an indigenous tree as an effort to compensate for the ones lost by the
Mt. Kenya inferno.
