Govt. agency alleges East African Breweries & Equator Bottlers polluting Lake Victoria
"The untouchables polluting Lake Victoria"
...Beer maker East African Breweries (EABL) and Equator Bottlers Limited, which manufactures Coca-Cola and other soft drinks for Nyanza region, have now been named among the list of industries that routinely fail to meet standards for treating their waste before dumping it into public sewer lines. A one-year report that documents compliance levels of various industries using the Kisumu Water and Sewerage Company (Kiwasco) sewer system shows that the two, together Kibos Sugar, PECHE industries and East African Sea Foods, have a case to answer....
Mr Thomas Odongo, the Kiwasco boss, said that when industries fail to meet their effluent discharge parameters, they end up straining their system. Overwhelmed, the firm ends up releasing equally polluted water back to the lake. Kiwasco said it often brings such concerns to offenders but some do not make necessary amends on time, which overwhelms their system. But in its response, Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL), a subsidiary of EABL, denied that it was polluting the lake. The firm maintained that its Kisumu brewery treats all its effluent at its recently installed water treatment plant.