Engineer Joseph Obunde, in charge of the sewerage treatment plant at Kiwasco, Kisumu Water and Sewerage Corporation
As I visited Kisumu’s Water sewerage treatment plant in 2015, it was finally being expanded. A long awaited little step to the cleansing of Lake Victoria. Apparently, according to the planners, more is being done in the industry in the area, namely the sugar cane industry.
Finally, in spring 2015, the Kisumu Sewerage Treatment Plant is being expanded. Workers pile stones into new huge trickling filters.The plant was built in the 1950s. Now its capacity is being expanded by one sixth. A move that was already planned for the first phase of the Lake Victoria Environmental Programme 15 years ago.Water trickling into the existing filters. Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenia, bordering Lake Victoria, can only treat one sixth to one tenth of its waste water. And the expansion of the plant is not sufficient.After rains a lot of incoming water is overflowing right at the entrance to the plant. Rain water and waste water are not neatly separated in the city of Kisumu.
