The best time to sink a 91-meter borehole in Ruambwa
The ‘Mulipuko’ water point fitted with a handpump is the center of activity in Ruambwa, a small village near Port Victoria. The manually operated water borehole is operated mostly by women and children like a gym lat pull-down that looks easy until you try and can only manage a trickle. Built by KEFINCO (Kenya Finland Cooperation) in the 1980s along 1399 other boreholes and 1363 hand-dug wells across Western Kenya the Mulipuko- local for explosion, got its name from the blasts that were used to blow up the rocky layers to get to fresh water. Bunyala infamous for its flooding is a paradoxically an acutely…
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