Families feel the heat after years of deforestation in water towers

Cutting down of trees to make charcoal and setting up settlements in key water installations has reduced forest cover [File, Standard]

Every major town in the country is currently under a water rationing programme. From Mandera to Lamu, no town has been spared dry taps and experts are warning that things will get worse and chances are high it will take decades for them to get better.

The reason for this is that we are cutting down more trees than we can plant, some of them in key water towers.