Hi, my name is Teite Zaneta, 22 years old and a mother to 3 children. 2 boys and a girl. We have been drinking this spring for many years now. The water smells some times and is dirty.
We spend about 30 minutes before collecting water when people are many. This led to quarrels at the water point and also increased violence against women in some homes. When it rains, rain water carries human waste and animal waste all into the spring, infecting it more. We also shared the spring with cattle and pigs from the homesteads around the spring.
Due to the unclean water used, people are infected with water borne diseases like typhoid, diarrhea, and stomach ache. Water warms which caused allot of problems to our health are everywhere.
“We spend about 80,000 shillings to pay medical bills in the health facility when one gets admitted. We sell our animals, food items to pay the bills, says Zaneta”. We can’t pay fees for our children in time, dress them, feed them well and even developing our families.