Owners of rental houses In Nakuru town have been urged to drill boreholes as one way of mitigating the problem of water shortage in the town.
Senior officer in the county's ministry of water and natural resources Nelson Tanui said that the problem of water scarcity in Nakuru would not have been that bad if every plot had a borehole.
Speaking on Wednesday in Free Area estate when he commissioned two boreholes which were drilled with funding from the county government, Tanui said that the water bed in Nakuru town was closer to the ground and therefore it is cheaper to sink a borehole.
“Nakuru is on top of a bed rock and therefore the water bed is just a few feet under which makes it easier to drill a borehole and I want to encourage those who are investing in the housing sector to make it a practice of drilling a borehole whenever they put up a new house so that water shortage problem can be handled,” said Tanui.
He added that another way of dealing with the water problem is by storing water in plastic tanks whenever there is a supply saying that the plastic tanks can hold water for a long time.
“Those who cannot sink boreholes can as well invest in large plastic tanks where they can store a considerable amount of water for a long period of time,” he said.
Nakuru County has been experiencing water scarcity something which has prompted the government to enter into talks with the county governments of Baringo and Nyandarua to seek alternative sources of water supply.