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‘Miracle worker’ behind Turkana’s reservoir

By JOE OMBUOR.

KENYA: The news that a massive water reservoir had been discovered at Lotikipi in the arid Turkana County caught a nation’s attention like few things have. The aquifer located courtesy of Unesco was dubbed ‘the biggest in Kenya’s history’, with the potential to grow our water reserves by ten per cent for the next 70 years, at an abstraction rate of 1.2 billion cubic metres annually.

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