How Kisumu plans to deal water shortage and floods

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Talks are under way to revive the Koru/ Soin dam, set to solve water shortage and to control floods in Kisumu county.While addressing the Press, the County Minister for Water, Hon Sal mon Orimba highlighted the progress and action taken by the county government to revive the Koru/Soin dam.
The multipurpose dam was constructed to control floods, provide domestic water and hydroelectric power with 80% set to benefit Kisumu county.
The county has embarked on negotiations with the residents to allow the resumption of the project to help ease water shortage. The dam has a capacity of 93Million 750 cubic litres of water that can serve the entire county with ease.

Hon Orimba also emphasized that the department has embarked on water drilling at Magwar in East Seme, Nyamisiri, Mariwa vocational centre, Awasi primary, Nyabondo catholic mission Ayweyo, Kanyipolo, Kwoyo, St Barnabas secondary school, and St Carmilus.

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Elsewhere the County Minister for Physical planning, Lands, Housing and Urban Development has today given emphasis on an exercise that is set to bring sanity in land issues. Hon Dickson Obungu stated that the lands task force established in October 2017 was mandated to look into land grievances in Kisumu county.

The task force recommended revocation of illegal, irregular and Multiple allocations of public, private land and Institutional Houses. Areas affected included Kanyakwar, Kajulu, Nyalenda, Kibos and Mamboleo with Targeted estates being Arina, Makasembo, Anderson, Nyalenda and moskow and Mamboleo. Acting upon the recommendations, the County Minister directs that the proprietors of these lands to submit their Titles as gazetted and the original land rates receipts

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meanwhile Kisumu County team led by Minister for Tourism,Culture and Sports Achie Alai visited Nandi County and specifically the County Minister – Valentine Chuomo in charge of Tourism, Culture, Social Services and her team to see how they market and promote their sites. Nandi County and Kisumu County in addition to 12 other counties, are members of LREB ( Lake Region Economic Block).

The team later visited Mlango Falls Chepkiit on River Kipkaren to learn how the County will convert the area into a conservancy in partnership with the local community who are fully supportive of the venue which will ensure they earn revenue.

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County revenue enforcement officers are on site as well as a guide. Kisumu County has similar sites and the County team will visit Kajulu Falls and Odino Falls next week to explore the same opportunities.

Accompanying the minister is the Director for Tourism- Thomas Ouko and Communications Officer Innocent Oleche.

Kisumu County is one of the three city-counties of Kenya with the other two being Nairobi and Mombasa. Overall, there are 47 counties in Kenya. Its borders follow those of the original Kisumu District, one of the former administrative districts of the former Nyanza Province in western Kenya. Its headquarters is Kisumu City. It has a population of 968,909 (according to the 2009 National Census). The land area of Kisumu County totals 2085.9 km²

Kisumu County’s neighbours are Siaya County to the West Vihiga County to the North, Nandi County to the North East and Kericho County to the East. Its neighbour to the South is Nyamira County and Homa Bay County is to the South West. The county has a shoreline on Lake Victoria, occupying northern, western and a part of the southern shores of the Winam Gulf.

Kisumu County is located in western Kenya, far from the nation’s capital. (To the southwest, in neighboring Siaya County, lies the village of Nyang’oma Kogelo, birthplace of Barack Obama senior.) The city of Kisumu, on the shores of Lake Victoria, has historically functioned as a major center of East African commerce. Because of its location along Africa’s largest lake, the area is ideally situated for fishing and fish processing, but the central government has long controlled key concessions on the lake, and economic development has left many of the inhabitants behind. Fishing, sugarcane farming, and rice farming are the county’s principal industries. Kisumu has long been riven by a fierce political rivalry between the Luo and Kikuyu peoples, and these ethnic tensions erupted into deadly violence following the controversial outcome of the December 2007 presidential election.

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