Residents of Eldoret and its surrounding areas have been cautioned to brace for a two-day water supply disruption after the Eldoret Water and Sanitation Company (ELDOWAS) confirmed a planned maintenance exercise at the Chebara Water Treatment Plant.
In a public notice issued on Wednesday, September 10, the company’s managing director, Lawrence Tanui, explained that the interruption will begin on Wednesday, September 17 at 9 a.m. and last until Thursday, September 19 at 9 p.m.
The exercise, he said, is necessary to allow engineers and technical teams to carry out routine servicing and ensure the facility continues to operate at full capacity.
According to Tanui, the interruption will affect several key residential estates, businesses, and institutions. Among those listed are Kimumu, the University of Eldoret, Marakwet Farm, Munyaka, Kapsoya, Action Estates, Rift Valley Bottlers, Bio-Corn, and Upper Elgon View.
Other affected regions include Eldoret Polytechnic, Annex, Langas, Racecourse, Kapsaret, Chepkanga, Marura, Kamukunji, Mwanzo, Old Uganda Road, as well as customers who rely on the Chebara–Eldoret Pipeline.
“This is to notify our valued customers that there will be a temporary disruption of water supply from the Chebara Treatment Plant due to scheduled maintenance,” Tanui stated.
He reassured residents that while tankers will not be deployed to the affected areas during this period, other treatment plants within the county will remain functional to ensure communities not linked to Chebara continue receiving water.
Eldoret, which has an estimated population of about 200,000 residents, requires approximately 65 million liters of water daily to meet its demand. Any prolonged shortage is likely to disrupt normal routines in households, learning institutions, and industries.
This situation is not unique to Eldoret. Just last month, Nairobi residents endured a similar disruption after the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company announced an unplanned outage caused by a technical fault along the Kabete–Kibera–Lang’ata water supply pipeline.
In a notice dated Saturday, August 17, Nairobi Water’s managing director, Nahashon Muguna, confirmed that several critical facilities and neighborhoods were affected, including the University of Nairobi, Kenyatta National Hospital, Westlands, Lang’ata, Kibera, Kilimani, Lavington, Parklands, Riverside, and Kileleshwa.
Other estates along Ngong and Lang’ata roads, as well as those on Raila Odinga Road such as Madaraka and Nyayo Highrise, Nairobi West, and The Nairobi Hospital also experienced dry taps.
“Our engineers have been working day and night to restore supply.
Meanwhile, we have deployed water tankers to the most affected neighborhoods to provide residents with water free of charge,” Muguna said at the time, while urging Nairobians to use their stored water sparingly.
With Eldoret now set to undergo a similar exercise, residents have been urged to make early preparations by storing enough water to last them through the two-day disruption.
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