Located in rural Mandera, 70 kilometres North of Mandera Town is the village of Sala. Overlooking it is river Dawa that flows smoothly and is about 1.5km from the village. However, accessing clean water for residents of this remote village has not been easy for many generations. The community relied on water supply from the shallow well pumped by a diesel generator which experienced frequent breakages and high maintenance and operation costs.  The diesel-powered generator pumped water...

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