The ongoing heavy rains in parts of the country have once again caught Kenyans flatfooted despite repeated alerts by the weatherman.
The Meteorological Department had warned in good time that the rains we are currently witnessing would be heavy and wreak havoc.
Given our penchant of second guessing the weather experts based on their past skewed forecasts, this time the weatherman was right.
There have been reports of deaths , displacement, floods and infrastructure damage even at the Met Department warns of continued heavy rains.
On Tuesday, a section of the Maai Mahiu - Narok Road was washed away while in Kiambu County a five-storey building under construction collapsed.
On Mombasa Road, the bridge at Mto ya Mawe was submerged paralysing transport on the busy road.
It is indeed a great shame that in a country that suffers endemic water shortage there are still no efforts to harvest the rain water that is now going to waste. We will be regaled with the usual water shortage distress calls once the rains are over and drought creeps in.
The scenes witnessed in Nairobi last week just exposed our frailties when it comes to building effective water drainage systems.
It beats common sense to build good roads and at the same time forget to construct efficient drainage systems.
It is time to set up proper structures that can entrench flood mitigation measures in the country.
Both the national and county governments must step up to the plate and strive to ensure that the country has proper infrastructure.
Our water harvesting weaknesses have been thoroughly exposed. We must build infrastructure that can collect all the rain water that is currently going to waste for future use. The time to walk the talk is now.
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