Chronic water problems facing thousands of Mwea residents will be a thing of the past after one mega project worth Sh 175 million is completed before the end of the year. Kirinyaga Governor Joseph Ndathi announced at the weekend that the project being implemented jointly between his government and the World Bank will end the rampant shortage of water for domestic use in the area. The county government will inject Sh 95 million while the World Bank will put Sh 80 million for the project whose treatment works are already being constructed at Samson Corner along Mwea-Embu highway. He said this will ensure that every village, home and school in the entire larger Mwea sub-counties will be supplied with clean piped water. “For the first time before the year ends, Mwea will get clean piped water for domestic use,this is in collaboration of world bank and my government” said Ndathi. Ndathi said lack of clean water had seriously compromised the health of residents who have been continuously suffered from water borne diseases like typhoid. He made the remarks on his second day of tour of Mwea sub-county where he visited Gathigiri and Wamumu wards to commission and inspect development projects in the area. Ndathi said the project would be completed before the end of the year as it was already in advanced stage of construction. "The biggest problem of Mwea is lack of clean water. This one we are addressing it today and it will be a thing of the past. Health is the other problem because of lack of clean water. We are here to resolve this once and for all,'' said.Kirinyaga county governro Joseph Ndathi washing his hands at a water point after clean piped water reached Gathigiriri ward,Mwea. Diarrhoea,typhoid,Dysentry and other waterborne disease were the silnet killers among mwea people where they used to fetch water from the rivers around where the waters were contaminated. Water contamination was as a result of people bathing in rivers,defacating when swimming,animals also used to dirtyfy the water when drinking ricking lives of those fetching water downstream. As a culture river water was never boiled making many especially children prone to waterborne diseases.