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Key water project cuts off livelihoods of local farmers

An excavator digs a trench for the Northern Collector Tunnel water project in Ng'ethu village, Gatundu North. [Fidelis Kabunyi, Standard]

Michael Kimani was still asleep one morning a week ago when the roar of an excavator woke him up. 

Kimani peeped through his bedroom window to see the giant machine inside his homestead and bearing down on his farm.

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