Nairobi county residents to go without water for the next two weeks.

The news of this announcement can't come at the worst time than this, when Nairobi and Kenya as a whole is facing a global pandemic in the form of corona virus which has unleashed its claws worldwide.

On top of restricted movements, curfew enforcements, hard economic times, social distancing and all the other directories which in the past couple of weeks have been the new norms and has become part and parcel  in the daily lives of the Nairobians and Kenyans at large and, I bet they can never ask for another condition or order to be added as it will make life unbearable and more hard to live .

But life has its own way of treating the vulnerable!

The Nairobi Government through the Athi Water Works and Development Agency(AWWDA) in conjunction with the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company, has today announced that the Nairobi region will be without water for the next two weeks. This is after the Sasamua-Kabete pipeline that is supplying water to Nairobi was damaged by a major landslide at the Karimenu River inside the Kieni Forest at the Aberdare ranges.

We sent our engineers there over the weekend and they have assessed the damage. We have started the repair work. The challenge is that we have to do an access road so we anticipate that we can repair the damage not later than in two weeks time,said Eng. Michael Thuita, the chief executive officer at AWWDA. When he was addressing the media

Now how will the Nairobians deal with the constant requirements of washing hands regularly in the fight against corona? does this translate to expecting more cases from Nairobi? 

Nairobians should fasten their seat belts and make themselves ready as they are in for a rough ride for the next two weeks of pure dryspell

But let's pray that this will not facilitate a rapid spread of the Corona virus in the Kenyan capital which is currently among the most affected by the virus in the country.