The Price of Water in Nairobi

A 2006 UNDP report said that residents of Nairobi’s informal settlements paid 5–10 times more per unit of water than wealthier residents of the same city. This is a historical generalization about different ways of getting water—for example, buying from vendors instead of having a household tap. The source fact conflates separate examples in the report and does not establish that Nairobi’s poor specifically paid ten times more than New Yorkers.