The Challenge Of Cleaning And Maintaining Mathare River In The Face Of Growth Of The Mathare Slum Settlements In Nairobi

Abstract Due to the increasing forms of environmental degradation, many countries have realized the importance of safeguarding their natural resource bases and have made such management actions like river rehabilitation their priority. This project report explores and analyses the challenge of cleaning and maintaining Mathare River in the face of the Mathare slum settlements in Nairobi. It was carried out between September 2013 and April 2014. Mathare River is one of the three rivers within the Nairobi River Basin with the other two being Motoine/Ngong River and Nairobi River. The research wa…