More than 3000 residents of Soin and Mosop wards in Rongai Nakuru have protested against diversion of water from two main rivers in the area by a local flower farm.
The residents on Monday attended a daylong meeting to deliberate on the next cause of action.
They expressed concerns that despite intervention by the Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) the management of African blooms flower company located near Salgaa still divert water from river Rongai and Shawa into their farms.
Residents depend on the two rivers for water.Tomato farmers in the two wards also do small-scale irrigation using water from the river.
Mosop ward MCA Daniel Mutai and his Soin ward counterpart told reporters that despite engaging the company's management several times, they still divert the water.
The flower farms use two big pipes to divert water from the river.
Another resident said a reservoir dam in the farm that uses water mixed with chemicals also pose a danger to their health.
On Tuesday, residents will be teaming up with local leaders to clean up the river whose water has now been contaminated.
Journalists who visited the flower farm on Monday landed in trouble after the company management confronted them demanding they stop filming the water diversion as well as the overflowing wastewater dam.
For more than two hours, the journalists were blocked at the main gate before Mosop ward MCA Daniel Mutai intervened.
The flower farm management declined to comment on the matter.
In a telephone interview, Nakuru county director of environment Timothy Muriithi Kiogora said his office will visit the company for an inspection on compliance.