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How farmers in drought stricken areas of Murang'a are battling drought

Sagana River with exposed rocks wherewater normally gushes [photo courtesy]

Where has all the water gone? Sections of the River Tana, known upstream on the slopes of Mount Kenya where Kenya’s largest river originates as Thagana (collector in Kikuyu) has been reduced to bare rocks or streams too weak to sweep away sitting frogs.

The water, so reckon the locals currently experiencing a harsh drought, has been pulled by the sun to the heavens where it has taken too long to return. 

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