Most of Patrick 'Moreno' Osiro's neighbours curse when the rains make the latrines overflow. For him, it's the smell of money.
NAIROBI: Most of Patrick"Moreno" Osiro's neighbours curse when the rains make the latrines overflow. For him, it's the smell of money.
He hauls on a thin piece of rope to bring up the faecal soup in an old cooking-oil tin, then pours it into buckets before decanting it into an oil drum mounted on wheels. That incubates deadly diseases, including cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio. Pollution is one of the key themes at a United Nations environmental conference hosted by Kenya next week.
More than half of Kenya's urban population live in unplanned settlements like Kibera, the World Bank says. The warren of narrow dirt-paved alleys is home to at least 250,000 souls. Moreno and his colleagues perform a social service, but they are no substitute for proper waste management, said Riccardo Zennaro, a programme officer for wastewater management at the United Nations Environment Program.
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