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Mukumu water source

How the spring looked like after the school installed a pump. This was the main source of water for the school until April this year.

| Isaac Wale | Nation Media Group

Poisoned spring that supplied drinking water to Mukumu students

Opposite the Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls’ gate, there is a narrow road that leads to a pitch that partly hosts the school farm. It is also the access path to the spring that until April this year was the main source of water for the school.

Nearby, there is a slaughterhouse, where all the meat that the students eat is handled before it is transferred to the freezers in the kitchen. When we visited, the place was dead silent, with no human activity or animal in sight.