Dry spell threatens water supply, spells doom for homes, schools in Kenya

A resident of Kobondo Village in Karachuonyo, Homa Bay County draws contaminated water from a dam for domestic use. Health officers have attributed the use of dirty water for the outbreak of Cholera in the region. [PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD]

KISUMU: Emily Akinyi, 27, wakes up at 4am daily to begin a desperate search for water, in the company of her eight-year-old daughter, Lewiski Achieng.

And in more than two hours of non-stop sojourn, she covers five kilometres to Kobondo dam, a water point that has in recent days become the well of life for residents of West Karachuonyo in Homa Bay County.