Nairobi Solid Waste Management & Storm Water Drainage and Flooding

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Abstract: These two issues of polluted flood waters and poor solid waste collection intersect. Improperly disposed of waste is often collected by stormwater streams and washed onto water courses,road reserves and sewerage systems: exposing communities to hazardous materials,damaging the natural environment and preventing much of the cityâ??s existing infrastructure from functioning effectively. The large scale of both these issues point both to the entrenched nature of the challenges,but also the potential impact which innovative solutions might have if deployed effectively. This report will discuss the two interrelated challenges of solid waste management,and stormwater draining and flooding that plague Nairobi. The first section of the report looks at Nairobiâ??s innovation potential,comparing and benchmarking the city against its global peers and examining its innovation ecosystem. In the second section we examine the challenge of solid waste management and stormwater drainage and flooding. We discuss the cityâ??s attempts to address these issues and the problems they have encountered. We examine recent and ongoing projects which attempt to tackle these problems.