From leadership wrangles, consumer debts and looming water level crisis, water company under siege

Fidelis Mwende, a resident of Embu town washes clothes at a river near the town. [File, Standard]

The survival of Embu Water and Sanitation Company (Ewasco) is under threat due to Sh380 million owed by customers.

And leadership wrangles at the company and the ever falling levels in rivers where the firm sources its water from have only served to compound the situation.