Water is a basic need for all communities and essential commodity for all living things. Being a region adjacent to the lake, all the water for cooking, washing, agriculture, and even for drinking is fetched from the lake.  There has been a plant called water hyacinth that covers water surface and one must go almost 40 feet through the thick hyacinth growth.
People around these villages do not have access to any type of improved sanitation facility. The most affected are the children dying due to diarrhea diseases. Living in extreme conditions of poverty with no proper sanitation services, access to sufficient safe water and sanitary disposal facilities is limited. Lack of hygiene is very high as children and even their parents go in the bush to release themselves. You could imagine a barefooted child go to the same spot everyday and some have even marked their positions.

• We encourage water catchment technologies e.g. use of water tanks to trap rain water.
• We dig wells in the communities for clean water. Today two wells have been dug at Maisha centre and Ayaro primary school.
• Sensitize on dangers of consuming lake water without treatment thus we encourage the use of water treatment chemicals and boiling before consumption.
• Campaign on proper refuse disposal and building pit latrines around the lake basin to reduce chances of open water pollution.

The community stakeholders are involved in water conservation initiatives e.g. elimination of water hyacinth to create more room and accessibility to clean lake water. With a 920 litre water tank at the community resource center, children get fresh well treated water for drinking.