Kenya+-+DBD

=WATER SHORTAGE / POLLUTION CRISIS=

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 * [|A Perfect Storm: Climate Change & Conflict: Kenya]
 * Kenya is experiencing severe climate change, and not for the better. Each new year, the environment becomes hotter and drier. Rising temperatures make the heat unbearable for the animals, and leave the earth barren. The Kenyans, desperate for water, dig six feet underground only to find a stagnant pool of unhealthy water. They have no choice but to drink it anyway. When it does rain, it comes in such deluge that it washes the fertile soil and healthy crops away. Desperate, some African tribes attack their neighbors with automatic rifles to steal their supplies. This is what the nation of Kenya has come to, and it all connects back to the environment.
 * [|As a Kenyan Forest Disappears, So Does Water]
 * While experiencing what Kenyan farmers call 'Global Warming,' Kenya is suffering. Once great forests are beginning to crumble and lose their youth due to the unbearable climate. These forests served Kenya as natural water towers, soaking up water during the rainy season and slowly releasing it throughout the rest of the year. They were the key to their water supply. Now, with the forests dwindling, the Kenyans must find other means of discovering water. One farmer says, "Global warming is a result of the destruction of the environment. It's the results of human activities. So, what we are seeing here now is the result of our own activities right here." This puts a new perspective on things. Is the environment itself to blame, or the humans affecting it?

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 * [|Kenya Suffers Severe Water Shortage]
 * With an already brittle environment, the last thing Kenya needs is a corrupt controlling its water. The water shortage throughout Kenya, including the capital, is said to be caused by flawed governmental programs, illegal water connections, and corrupt cartels. The officials of the water companies controlling Kenya's water are believed to be conspiring illegally with wealthy families and providing them clean water at the demise of others. To make matters worse, the unsanitary waters the Kenyans drink are more likely to cause a harmful outbreak of disease. The government has promised to stop the cartels at work there, but until then the environment will suffer along with the people of Kenya.
 * [|Kenya: Pollution and poor management causes water shortage in Kimisu]
 * Water pollution and scarcity especially effects the poor, third world nations in this world such as Kenya. With the growing population, contamination of ground and surface water, drought, 'Global Warming,' and uneven distribution of water, the whole situation becomes an extreme issue. This is obviously being caused by human means, and it will ultimately be their own demise if the water crisis continues.
 * [[file:Poor Water Kenya.pdf]]
 * Kenya is already experiencing a dreadful drought, but the poor, corrupt management of water just makes matters worse. When officials set up a dam blocking off the water supply to farmers, they revolted, and demolished it with just spears, machetes and other tools. These farmers relied on the dam's water for irrigation for their crops, and in turn, their lives. When the environment doesn't meet the hopes of the citizens, they have to take matters into their own hands.
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