High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Water supply and sanitation in Nairobi is characterized by achievements and challenges. Among the achievements is the expansion of infrastructure to keep pace with population growth, in particular through the construction of the Thika Dam and associated water treatment plant and pipelines during the 1990s; the transformation of the municipal water department into an autonomous utility in 2003; and the more recent reduction of water losses - technically called non-revenue water - from 50 to 40%. Challenges include poor quality and intermittent water supply (only 40% of those with house connections receive water continuously); the loss of storage capacity in reservoirs behind dams through siltation accelerated by erosion in the Aberdare Range; lack of access to adequate sanitation in slums where half the population of the city lives; blockages of sewers resulting in overflows; and unused capacity in the city's largest wastewater treatment...

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