SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) is the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal dedicated entirely to ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. It encompasses access to safe drinking water, sanitation services, wastewater treatment, water efficiency, and the protection of water-related ecosystems.

Wajibika centre for Rural Development contributes by availing clean Water and Sanitation infrastructure for vulnerable communities, ensuring access to essential resources and improved living conditions.

Since 2022, Wajibika centre for Rural Development has led Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) programs across underserved regions of Kenya, including Lake Turkana zone in Turkana County and villages around Siaya affected by prolonged droughts.

Wajibika Centre and project partners provides sustainable water systems to ease access for women and children, promotes hygiene and sanitation through community awareness and training, and integrates Disaster Risk Reduction, climate resilience based on the local context.

Working with communities, Researchers, government, UN agencies, and civil societies, Wajibika Centre ensure inclusive, participatory, coordinated and lasting impacts.

Kenya faces a severe WASH crisis, with 19 million Kenyans lacking basic water and 36 million lacking safe toilets. Extreme climate conditions and infrastructure gaps force 9.9 million to drink contaminated surface water. This shortfall causes disease outbreaks and drives over 5,000 child deaths annually from diarrhea.

• Informal Urban Settlements: In Nairobi's slums (like Kibera), residents often rely on unregulated cartels that tap pipes illegally. Families spend up to 20% of their income on water, five to ten times more than other Kenyans.
•  Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL): In regions like Turkana in the northern Kenya, women and children walk up to 10 kilometers daily to fetch water. Droughts frequently cause crop failures, and flooding periodically destroys boreholes, leaving thousands dependent on emergency water trucking.
• Rural Areas: Approximately 5 million people still practice open defecation due to a lack of basic sanitation facilities and latrines. Only 14% of schools nationwide have functioning handwashing stations.