Less than 1pc use bottled water in rural Kenya regions

Nearly 16 percent of the urban population rely on bottled water compared to less than one percent of the people living in rural areas, a new survey shows.

The latest Kenya Demographic Health Survey released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that 15.7 percent of the people living in towns rely on bottled water, while just 0.5 percent of the rural population is drinking bottled water.