Residents in witu ward will soon be relieved from the acute shortage of water after a request was initiated by Lamu county government to the national drought management authority NDMA who secured funding for construction of a dam.

In a meeting at the County Headquarters this morning, H.E The Deputy Governor Abdul Hakim Bwana addressed that the European Union together with the county government will soon put up a 50,000m3 water dam at Nagelle in Witu ward .

The project will be able to sustain farmers for irrigation, pastoralist doing livestock keeping and the community for their domestic use.