Alarm over declining water level in rivers as forest shrinks

A section of the Kaptagat forest in Elgeiyo Marakwet County that has been destroyed by illegal loggers. Many rivers emanating from the forest have dried up.

North Rift has more than 291,000 hectares of gazzeted forests and serves as a major water source for Western, Nyanza and Turkana.

But the forest cover has drastically been depleted following years of wanton destruction.