Thriving tomato farms leave livestock thirsty as water war rages on

For a visitor, the sight of hundreds of goats, sheep, donkeys and cattle crowded together might mean a ranch.

But on moving closer, the animals’ loud bleats, occasionally swallowed by thunderous rumbles of hooves coming into contact with the dry earth, highlight the devastating search for water at River Weseges, the only source of the commodity for residents of Mbogoini Division in Nakuru County’s Subukia area.