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Forum suggests ways of saving crucial lake on the brink of death

Lake Kenyatta in Mpeketoni in Lamu County. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Conservation groups have blamed deforestation and human encroachment for the drying up of Lake Kenyatta.

On Saturday, officials and members of community-based organisations discussed the fate of the lake at a forum in Mpeketoni organised by Water Resource Authority Management Authority (Warma). Conservationists want the lake gazetted for easy conservation.

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