Register a small-scale water service provider with WASREB
Water Services Regulatory Board · sources read 4 Oct 2026
If you run a community, gated-estate, private or NGO water project, register it with WASREB using the online SSSP registration form. Supplying water without a WASREB licence is an offence.
- Fee
- We couldn't confirm a fee from the official page. Check it there before you pay.
- Where
- Online, through the SSSP registration form linked on wasreb.go.ke. Questions: license@wasreb.go.ke
What you need
- Proof your project is a registered legal entity (association, society, company or public benefit organisation), needed for licensing
- Your water permit from the Water Resources Authority (WRA)
Steps
- Open the SSSP registration form from WASREB's Rural and Underserved Areas Guideline page.
- Fill in and submit the form online. WASREB does not accept paper forms.
- For questions, email license@wasreb.go.ke.
Watch out
- Supplying water without a licence is an offence.
- To be licensed, you must charge a tariff approved by the regulator.
- Don't meet all licensing conditions yet? You sign an agreement with the county or the licensed water company on how you'll meet them.
Who can apply
- Community water projects, gated-community or housing-developer water projects, private or individual water operators, and PBO/NGO water projects that have not registered with WASREB before.
- This applies to water operators in all 47 counties.
Official sources (4)
- Registration of Small Scale Water Service Providers (notice, 18 March 2025) wasreb.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- Rural and Underserved Areas Guideline (page) wasreb.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- Guideline for Provision of Water and Sanitation Services in Rural and Underserved Areas (December 2019), s.5.4.1 wasreb.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- The License wasreb.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026