How water cartels are subjecting residents of Kalokol to torture

Locals at a watering hole in Kalokol in Turkana County. Water cartels have diverted water pipes from a community borehole denying them water. [Fred Kibor, Standard]

Salome Ekai braces the morning desert chill as she joins other residents of Kalokol at the shores of Lake Turkana on a 10-kilometer trek in search of water.

It is almost 4am as the group winds up its walk at a dry river bed where they have dug a shallow borehole locally known as a ‘laga’ enabling them access clean water beneath the sunbaked sand.