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Study: Lake Turkana may survive but the people close by will suffer

Beach management offices submerged by the flooding in Lake Turkana in September 2020 [File, Standard]

For years, Lake Turkana appeared as though it was drying up.

This is because Ethiopia has built a series of hydroelectric dams on its main tributary, the Omo River, leading to predictions of Lake Turkana’s demise as the water levels were forecast to drop by two-thirds.

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