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The constituency is situated within Westlands Sub-county, formerly Westlands District. The entire constituency is located within Nairobi City County and has an area of 72.4 km 2 (28.0 sq mi). It was known as Nairobi Northwest Constituency at the 1963 elections, then as Parklands Constituency and since 1988 elections it has been known as ...
Water supply and sanitation in Nairobi is characterised 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 ...
Westlands is a residential district in Nairobi which houses a sizable population of upper middle class and wealthy Kenyans [3]. During the 1990s and early 2000s, as land and office space became scarce and exorbitantly priced in the central business district, more businesses have relocated to Westlands and Upper Hill, where land and office space are more readily available and less expensive.
District staff worked over the last several years to get permits allowing water injection wells at more than 400 sites in Westlands and will have nine district-owned injection wells completed by ...
Following a High Court ruling in September 2009, there were 46 legal districts in Kenya, [7] excluding Nairobi which constituted a 47th district. Following the Kenyan general election, 2013, these districts and Nairobi now constitute the 47 counties which will be the basis for rolling out devolution as set out in the 2010 Constitution of Kenya (district headquarters are in parentheses):
It is the main river of the Nairobi River Basin, with several parallel streams flowing eastward. All of the Nairobi basin rivers join east of Nairobi and meet the Athi River, which eventually flows into the Indian Ocean. The rivers are mostly narrow and highly polluted, [1] though recent efforts to clean the rivers have improved water quality. [2]
The Royal Commission drew 117 constituencies across the 40 districts and Nairobi region. [1] [2] The number of constituencies increased from 117 at independence to 290 in 2013. There have been four major constituency delineations since independence: in 1966, 1986, 1996 and 2012.
It borders Mathare Constituency to the south, Ruaraka and Kasarani constituencies to the east, Ruiru constituency to the north and northeast, Kiambu constituency to the northwest and Westlands constituency to the west. It is the northmost constituency in Nairobi with an area of 48.80 km 2 (18.8 sq mi).