The County Government of Nakuru Public Health Department has partnered with the Egerton University in a deal that will see the varsity carrying out research on the sewage and how to deal with it.
Samuel King'ori who is the County Public Health Officer said that Egerton University was going to establish a resource center within Nakuru town that will go ahead and convert the sludge into manures and fertilizers that can be used by the farmers and also the biogas.
Speaking to the press yesterday while at his office in Nakuru town, King'ori said that the research if successful was going to help in reducing the waste in the town and making it useful to the farmers.
"If the research is successful we are going to help the farmers by offering them the cheap manure and also biogas at a very cheap price. We are really optimistic that this research is going to work,” King"ori said.
King'ori went ahead and said that the door is still open to any private investors or institution which is willing to join in the research
"We are not closing the door and we are welcoming any person or even institution which might need to work with us in this research. We will be very grateful if we find other people who wants to join us in the research which will go ahead and benefit the farmers in the county,” King'ori said.
The Public Health Officer went ahead and said that the county was safe from any outbreak and refutes the ongoing allegations that there was an outbreak of cholera in the town.