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| Water Box innovation by students. PHOTOS: MARY MWENDWA |
Students living in water stressed areas of Kenya are using a simple innovation to plant trees using minimal water. Through a technology known as water box, they are turning their dry and sun-scorched environment green.
The use of the water box innovation comes at a time when the country need to increase its forest cover to the global required minimum of 10 per cent. Inadequate rains and lack of readily available water in arid areas have been a stumbling block in afforestation. Now the water box idea is likely to change all this.
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