Desperate Nyanza farmers give calves soda as rivers dry up

A boy fetches water in an improvised hole dug where river Awach passes near Oluch Kimira in West Karachuonyo in Homabay county in a picture taken on January 14, 2017. The persistent absence of rain has caused many rivers to dry up. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

Mzee Daniel Obage is living proof of how drought has wreaked havoc in Nyanza.

Mr Obage, from Kowuor village, Kokoth Kateng’, in Karachuonyo lost six head of cattle in the space of a few months.