Kenya: Rain Harvesting Saves Kenyan Community 100 Km Water Trek

28 July 2014

Mutomo — Until recent years, the rocky, drought-prone settlement of Mutomo in eastern Kenya had the unenviable reputation of being the only trading centre in the country where women and children were forced to trek over 100 km in search of water.

The 7,800 residents of the trading centre - where grain, livestock, processed foods, household wares and traditional goods and medicines are bartered and sold - relied on one borehole providing saline water, forcing the thirsty community of subsistence farmers and herders to travel huge distances in search of the precious commodity.

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