Nope. It is ethics. We have little to none. Ethics sit at the core of societal progress. Infrastructure is a result of human work and resources. Resources require discipline to be channeled properly, and we are in severe want of discipline. In the sixties, Kenya and South East Asia countries like S Korea, Malaysia, Singapore were roughly on the same economic footing; Now, those places are economic powerhouses due to hard work, focus and the famous Asian honesty, while we have cannibalised ourselves through corruption and tribal politics. The sad thing we can't unyoke ourselves. This generation of Kenyans is doomed to myopic endeavours and basic subsistence until we all die off and are completely replaced by better informed, more accepting, less tribal and more focused people; Probably the children of our children. Pity.

@kyt

It is very sad that the members are giving you very little information on what you had asked for. Of course there are many things to consider when we say that a certain amount of space will be required if we were to live some other people's standards elsewhere...

Since numbers don't lie, I will give you a very simple example based on water resource...

here we go...

In US from the latest available water draw data, the following is a schedule of how Americans live large on this water resource in litres per day:

1. Public Supply = 239,927.0 million litres per day

2. Domestic = 19,892.3 million litres per day

3. Irrigation = 759,121.1 million litres per day

4. Livestock = 9,752.2 million litres per day

5. Aquaculture = 20,501.8 million litres per day

6. Industrial = 109,158.3 million litres per day

7. Mining = 19,338.2 million litres per day

8. Thermoelectric = 1,080,501.0 million litres per day

Total Volume = 2,258,191.9 Million litres per day

Next current population of United States of America = 316 million

Water usage per day per capita = 2,258,191.9m l/d / 316m

= 7146.2 litres/day/capita

Back to Kenya

Supposing we are using the same amount of water per capita per day in Kenya with a population of 40 million people

Then total amount of water needed to satisfy the requirement is therefore

= 7146.2 litres/day/capita x 40m = 285,848 million litres per day

Volume of water required per year = 285,848m l/d x 365 days

= 104,334,520 million litres per year

From the available data on water availability in Kenya, the country is sub divided into five zones known as drainage basins which have the following established water output capacities per year.

1. Lake Victoria basin = 11,672,000 million litres per year

2. Rift Valley Basin = 2,784,000 million litres per year

3. Athi River Basin = 1,152,000 million litres per year

4. tana River Basin = 3,744,000 million litres per year

5. Ewaso Ng'iro Basin = 339,000 million litres per year

6. Ground Water = 600,000 million litres per year

Total amount of water 20,292,000 million litres per year

In short the maximum amount of water that Kenya can produce in any given year is on average 20,292,000 million litres per year!!!!

But if we changed our standards to the US on water usage we will need

104,334,520 million litres per year

We will therefore need 104,334,520m l/y /20,292,000m l/y = 5.14 Kenya countries to satisfy the new demand.

We will therefore need 6 Kenyas with similar climatic conditions, drainage patterns, relief, river distributions etc to provide us with water to US's per capita demand!!!!

That is just water resource alone...extend this to all the sectors of economy and you will be amazed at how many Kenyas we will need, perhaps 1000 Kenyas.

Too much for you huh!!!

Agree

One cause of our lack of ethics is tribalism. Our leaders have brainwashed Kenyans into thinking that tribal allegiance is the most important thing. Therefore Kenyans must their fellow tribesmen regardless of how incompetent they are as leaders.

as it stands kiagio, we currently have 250BN cubic, yes with a B, meters of water. Now going by your estimate, we only require .2 billion cubic metres of water per year. to exhaust that water, we will need 1500 years!! that is 13 generations, kiagio! 13!! foresight is the lacking ingredient. we are busy chasing technopolis and industrial park while basic commodity is lacking. lakini hata wewe kiagio, 7000 litres per day unafanyia nini? kwani niko na ngamia 100 kwa nyumba?

You still don't get it!

The maximum amount of water at Kenya's disposal per year is only 20,291,000 million litres per year which is equivalent to 20,291 million cubic metres per year which is equivalent to 20.29 Billion cubic metres per year...

You (Kenyans) are able to abstract an amount equal to 5.4% or 1096 million cubic metres per year...

The per capita availability based on the abstraction value is therefore 1,096,000 million litres per year/40 million people = 27,400 litres/year per capita = 75.1 litres/day/capita!!!!!!!

With that per capita availability it makes you one of the most water poor people on earth!!!!

The other issue is usage of water at 7000 litres per day per capita...it is happening in the USA at their current level of industrialisation and demographic status coupled with their current living standards....

We also have some European countries approaching that per capita daily water consumption.