What is the water and sanitation situation in Kenya?
Kenya has a strong and growing economy, but disparities in wealth and development persist and are actually worsening in the semi-arid north and in urban areas. Kenya is seriously off-track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals targets of reducing by half the proportion of people living without access to safe water and sanitation by 2015. According to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) database the proportion of people in Kenya with access to water is 83% in urban areas and 46% in rural areas. For sanitation the percentage is 46% urban and 41% rural. The MDG targets are 72.5% for safe water coverage (93.5% in urban areas; 65% in rural areas) and 70% basic sanitation coverage (74% urban; 68.5% rural).
