{"id":914716,"date":"2022-01-09T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/09\/migori-town-residents-ask-governor-to-restore-clean-water-supply\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:52:22","slug":"migori-town-residents-ask-governor-to-restore-clean-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/migori-town-residents-ask-governor-to-restore-clean-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Migori town residents ask governor to restore clean water supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ohszclolyhstozu61daabbc19bbc.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Migori Suna Marindi market traders wash fish with polluted water from River Migori on January 7, 2022<\/strong>. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Migori town residents have expressed fear of disease outbreaks following water shortage in the county for the last three months.\n<\/p>\n<p>Marindi\u00a0market\u00a0traders\u00a0led by Millicent Achieng, said that locals are eating fish washed with polluted water from River Migori as they have no alternative sources of water. <\/p>\n<p>Achieng said\u00a0traders\u00a0depend on the river&#8217;s water that is contaminated with filth from the\u00a0market\u00a0centres.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no access to clean water since all taps within the\u00a0market\u00a0and its surrounding areas are dry, but when we\u00a0 inquire from Migori county water department, we are told to be patient,&#8221; Achieng said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0traders\u00a0are now asking the\u00a0governor\u00a0to come to\u00a0their aid as their businesses are suffering.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"u0ulkP_BBbs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why the whole world is talking about Migori county | KTN News Centre\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0ulkP_BBbs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001433889\/migori-town-residents-ask-governor-to-restore-clean-water-supply\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migori Suna Marindi market traders wash fish with polluted water from River Migori on January 7, 2022. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard] Migori town residents have expressed fear of disease outbreaks following water shortage in the county for the last three months. Marindi\u00a0market\u00a0traders\u00a0led by Millicent Achieng, said that locals are eating fish washed with polluted water from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}