Talk:Water supply and sanitation in Kenya

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A fact from Water supply and sanitation in Kenya appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 May 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that on average, Kenyan water utilities provide 14 hours of service each day, supplying water for 16 hours in Nairobi and for 6 hours in Mombasa?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/May.

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Section sizes

Section size for Water supply and sanitation in Kenya (50 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,717	4,717
Data sources and interpretation	1,731	1,731
Water resources	1,933	7,633
Surface water	2,013	2,013
Groundwater	3,687	3,687
Access	144	6,977
Water supply	2,398	5,263
Water sources	2,865	2,865
Sanitation	1,570	1,570
Service quality	336	7,761
Water quality	3,520	3,520
Continuity of supply	964	964
Wastewater treatment	2,941	2,941
History and recent developments	217	16,385
Beginnings	571	571
Colonial period	2,728	2,728
Independent Kenya (1963–1980)	3,267	3,267
Transition period (1980–1992)	1,215	1,215
Commercialization of local utilities	2,580	2,580
Reorganisation of water institutions (2002–2011)	3,117	3,117
Water Bill 2015 and national Water Act 2016	2,690	2,690
Responsibility for water supply and sanitation	54	14,285
Policy formulation and sector coordination	2,481	2,481
Regulation	1,613	1,613
Asset management	2,122	2,122
Service provision	4,819	4,819
Water sector arbitration	721	721
Civil society	1,569	1,569
WASH services for schools	906	906
Economic efficiency	2,751	2,751
Financial aspects	25	10,432
Cost recovery	766	766
Tariff level	4,014	4,014
Tariff adjustments	1,471	1,471
Investment	1,121	1,121
Financing	1,629	1,629
Bill payment through mobile phones	1,406	1,406
External co-operation	1,620	8,623
African Development Bank	2,397	2,397
France	1,470	1,470
Germany	1,452	1,452
Sweden and Denmark	951	951
World Bank	733	733
Examples at county level	32	2,414
Kitui County	2,382	2,382
Society and culture	27	1,595
Allegations of corruption	1,568	1,568
See also	161	161
References	30	30
External links	714	714
Total	86,209	86,209

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This article's most recent comprehensive update was in December 2015

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge that this article, as it stands today, is the product of a collaborative effort between Ukowalska, primary author (see her sandbox), Amusiol who wrote the sections on water resources and external cooperation, as well as myself (lead section and quality review). In consent with the co-authors I posted the article from the sandbox to the article space. Obviously this does not entail any claims as to the authorship of the article. We expect to draw attention to the article by circulating links to it to professionals working on water and sanitation in Kenya, in order to further improve the article.--Mschiffler (talk) 19:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this kind acknowledgement. Ukowalska (talk) 22:48, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Hi there! I just read the article and made some minor edits. It is very interesting and up to date. Congratulations! However I think that some details could still be improved:

Access: "Estimates for 2008 indicate that 31% (27% of urban and 32% of rural) Kenyans had access to private improved sanitation."

What do you mean with "private improved sanitation"?

Water quality: "on average about 78% of the water supplied for drinking use was tested in 2006-2007."

This sounds to me as if within the 78% every drop of drinking water is tested before being supplied. What do you mean exactly?

Economic efficiency: It would be interesting to know if Kenya performs well compared to its neighbors and benchmarks for developing countries.
Abbreviations are not continuous. For instance, WSPs are sometimes written in full and sometimes not.

Looking forward to your reactions and more opinions! Greetings! --Kerres (Talk) 12:03, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]