I visited a friend who recently sunk a borehole at a cost of Ksh 5.6 M and the yield per day is only 100litres !

He is considered lucky ! Other boreholes have been sunk at similar costs and yield air.

The Govt. is sinking boreholes all over the city,but what is even more alarming is that the ground water levels are sinking to lower levels.

Our only hope as we are told is that the rains in Oct will reverse the situation. If at all the long rains failed,what gurantee do we have for the short rains ?

Its sickening that we are still debating with people who are growing maize,beans and potatoes on our water towers to leave,yet the politicians are backing them up.

Whatever we do now,be it planting trees or harvesting water will not reverse the damage.

Its simply a check mate from Mother Nature !


The Hedonist

We lost it when we said that 'Wangari Mathai was a mad woman'!

Simple solution. We subdivide the remaining forest cover. Cut down all trees standing. Burn enough charchoal to last for atleast 10 years. Get enough money from timber. Stock enough timber products to last for the same period. Get down to ground zero. Then may be we will start thinking. Note I mean thinking and not replanting trees.

I always tell my friends that ' One day we will all wake up dead' Kizungu Ngumu lakini! But I mean It. Mas extermination.




Do good,do it well!

Thanks Obi for bringing up this topic. I have just been thinking about the same for the last few days and I have come to the conclusion that no ordinary solution will solve this extraordinary problem. The situation in our water towers is dire. Kenyans are not people who obey laws so banning of logging will not do anything so here is my solution: Get the army into Mau,Aberdares,Cherangani and all other water towers and kick everybody out (tutapanga baadaye where they will go because if we wait to plan where they will go first they will still be there in 2079). After Evictions get the NYS in to plant indegenous trees in the felled areas. After the NYS guys are done let the army plant ANTI PERSONNEL MINES around and in the forests and leave. Let the natural forest areas be fenced off with signs all round telling all to keep off. Let there be a massive media campaign to inform Kenyans that all the forests are mined and dangerous and people should only venture in if they seek to see the creator face to face. Those who do will provide manure for the trees. The only maintenance natural forests need is to be left alone.

Weusi wa nywele za mshtakiwa zaonyesha ujinga alio nao

Thanks to Ruto and others b4 him,Mau issue will either be resolved quickly (within next 1year) but with bloodshed or will take years before its resolved. Siasa mbaya,maisha mbaya.



Obi-this is a good and timely post but one of the other effects you've not mentioned is water-wars. In marginal districts like Laikipia,this will happen more and more often as pastoralists clash with crop farmers. In other areas,where there is dependancy on river flow,it'll also become a problem. And Mwea irrigation scheme for rice?





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