Innovative solution for Kenyan water

摘要

A water services provider in Kenya's coast province has installed a new set of vertical multistage pumps at its water treatment plant following a failure. Mawasco, based in Malindi, Kenya, procured a set of Poldap Dalgic Pump sets from Konya in Turkey as replacements. Water supply in Malindi, Kenya had been interrupted for several months after the pumps' motors failed. The failure was blamed on the erratic power supply to the facility, which obtains its electricity from the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), based in Nairobi, a state-owned listed power utility. "Power quality problems in the form of voltage dips, transients and harmonics contributed to the failure of the motors," said Johnson Randu, MD of Malindi Water Services and Sewerage Co (Mawasco). Mawasco is the successor company to the Gauff Utility Services Kenya Ltd., a private company based in Malindi, which managed water transmission and distribution services until 2005 when water sector reforms in Kenya ushered in a new management structure.