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Clean water key to taming communicable diseases

Residents fetching dirty water from Nagwenyi borehole in Mosiro in Narok East sub-county. Pastoralists in the area have been asked to sell their stock to avert losses occasioned by drought-related deaths. PHOTO: ROBERT KIPLAGAT

Kenya has once again found itself in the jaws of drought. Reports so far indicate that the worst affected are the arid and semi-arid areas of Turkana, Pokot, Baringo, Nyandarua and North Eastern.

The result has been death from hunger and preventable communicable diseases.
The drought has seen rivers dry up. Many have had to make do with the little water resources available, recycling where possible to maximise on usage.

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