Problem
Meshenani is located near the northwest corner of Amboseli National Park. It is a chronically dry area and home to approximately 1,600 people spread out over a relatively large area. There is a school close to the park that almost 300 students attend, and about 1,000 people live nearby. Farther from the park is a group of villages with about 600 rural Kenyans Their water came from a hand-dug shallow well 10 miles away from Meshenani.
Solution
After the success of the first pipeline connection, and to answer the call for help from the farther corners of Meshenani, Water is Life Kenya implemented a second pipeline. With permission from Kenya Wildlife Service, which manages Amboseli National Park and the water pipeline and serves the gates at the park’s entrance, we were allowed to connect the community to the pipeline. Community members dug trenches and laid pipes, purchased a water tank, and constructed a concrete platform for the tank. Now the community uses water from this source.
Status:
Complete & Functioning
Photos from Meshenani
