Water cuts leave Kenyan slum residents ‘at risk'

Police charge at demonstrators in Mathare on 31 July 2007, five days after the water taps in the slum ran dry (Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN)

"The public toilets are polluted and sick people are using the toilets as well, so we are afraid that diseases will break out soon. We have not had drinking water for a couple of days, only dirty water is left," one resident said.

"If we stay here without water for five days, we are just waiting for diseases to come," said another protester. "We don't want our children to have cholera because they have to drink bad water."

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