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Builders are fast embracing water recycling and underground water storage facilities

NAIROBI, KENYA: When the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company announced a water rationing plan in January, Ndakaini Dam, which supplies most parts of Nairobi with piped water, had reached 48 per cent of its capacity. The water company was forced to slash watersupply by 13 per cent to enable them sustain the city residents to at least April.

But the water shortage did not worry many city property developers or homeowners.

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