Chapter 1. Water tanks

1 Chapter 1. Water tanks history of Water tanks in Kenya One of the oldest known Water tanks in Kenya was built by the railway at Makindu River in 1907. It appears the tank was connected to a hydram pump that used the power of the flowing Water in the river to push Water into the tank from where it was used by steam locomotives. It is interesting to note that the base of the tank is 3/5 of its height, which is the same ratio as for building rock catchment dams in neighbouring Kitui. This ratio eliminates the use of reinforcement in the walls. The square form of the tank, which has no cracks, is another interesting factor, because all other square and rectangular tanks known have leakages. Large circular tanks were built at Simba near Makindu. Water was gravitated from Mount Kilimanjaro to the tanks for watering livestock in the ranching schemes of ALDEV in the 1950s.

1.1 History of water tanks in Kenya One of the oldest known water tanks in Kenya was built by the railway at Makindu River in 1907. It appears the tank was connected to a hydram pump that used the power of the flowing water in the river to push water into the tank from where it was used by steam locomotives.

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