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End of water woes in Turkana after don makes new discovery

Turkana residents moving with their Camels to parts of Uganda looking for a drop of water on Sunday March 21, 2021 due to persistent drought. [Bakari Ang'ela, Standard]

Turkana residents are elated after the discovery that the Lotikipi Basin aquifer in Turkana contains freshwater.

Climate change and water resource expert and the University of Nairobi (UoN) lecturer, Prof Gilbert Ouma dismissed claims that the entire aquifer was saline and unfit for human use.

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