ADVANTURE AT THE SEWERAGE

 The sewerage is often exhibited behind closed doors, not on a public stage: talking about the varsity sewerage is like, a father telling a third bedtime story to his son.

A section of the Moi university sewerage system showing the fifth, sixth and the seventh sewerage water purification stages. Photo by Jackson Nzuli, June 11, 2016.

The varsity has epic sceneries exalting the virtues of courage and compassion, The Water Falls, for instant, but the adventure of sewerage might be a bit of a snoozer.
Yet it is essential to daily campus life—and might be key to a happy one.

Moi university Sewerage point is one of most isolated places in the varsity. It is located at the leeward side of the varsity, 500M from the varsity. Students have no adventure to place due to bad odour and rotten smell from the sewerages. The varsity toilet wastes are disposed to the sewerage.

The sewerage waste undergoes seven processes before it is released to the river to be used by men for all economic and domestic purposes. At the first stage, the secrets of the varsity toilets and ablution are disposed. This is where the used tissue papers, used condoms and other strange wastes are disposed and sieved. The solid materials are left at the first stage. The sewerage mixture then proceeds to the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and the seventh stage for further treatment. ‘’at the seventh stage, the sewerage water is usually harmless and odourless. The water still contains urine and other waste but it is treated such that it cannot harm the environment and the people in the surrounding. The sewerage water is safe and clean for both human and animal consumption at the seventh stage, ‘’ said one of the workers at the sewerage. The workers ensure that the sewerage tunnels do not block. The water from the sewerage is then mixed with the river water, 10m from the sewerage. Five meters from the mixing point, bridge constructors and other workers use the water for construction, drinking, cooking food and also bathing.

The water is also used for watering vegetables and other fruits planted alongside the river, about 100m from where the water from the sewerage mixes with the water in the river. The vegetables are then supplied to markets such as Mabatini, Stage and Kesses. The primary consumers of the products are the Moi university students.  

One of the residents said, ’’there have never been incidences of typhoid or other diseases caused by dirty water since the construction of this sewerage system. We belief that the sewerage water is safe for drinking and cooking. Even our livestock depend on it.’’

The sewerage has been used by students and other people who may not want to be disturbed by other people due to its allocation. Such groups of people include students’ retreats and the bhang smokers. As the MUISSA elections in Moi university approaches, a group of students on Saturday, June 12, 2016 decided to endorse their contestant at the seventh sewerage Troup. The group leader said that the area was far from interferences and that’s why they chose it for the endorsement process. Other groups that had visited the area on that Saturday include Makueni County students association.

Below the sewerage, near the seventh troup of the sewerage, the ‘’bad boys’’ take their adventure. Some bhang smokers pledge their loyalty to the weed inside a hole covered by thicket. No one can notice their presence even at a closer distance since the area is isolated.

Other adventurous areas around Moi University include the water falls, which is also alongside the same river where the water from the sewerage is disposed.