Harsh times for Samburu pastrolists

Three arid districts. One watering point. Thousands of cattle. Long queues and threats of a disease outbreak. Such is the predicament of herders in the larger Samburu area as they jostle to ensure their livestock get a sip of water.

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[adikiny]

RAIN-WATER

Even if rain does not fall frequently in some parts of Africa, it is a fact, that when rain falls, it pours in PLENTY. How does the country and people make use of that water?

The point is that if RAIN-WATER was allowed to fall on a cemented recipient the size of a stadium and directly led into tanks, underground or above, no place would lack water, for it is the RAINS that give potable water. Whether in rivers or lakes, water first comes from RAIN.

[cmj307]

The core problem complex: droughts are becoming more frequent, longer lasting, and more severe. Why? Excess in the west causing climate change---these people, who already have so little feel the direct impacts of the greed and entitlement to have whatever one wants whenever one wants it, and the environment be damned. Global warming, climate change, and carbon emmissions are to blame---and then it's the pastorlaist blamed for trying to survive.

[razr3g]

i cant believe in 2009 there are parts of kenya without any water, a basic life giving need. This is absolute ludicrous as our law makers live in luxury paid for by the kenyan tax payer

[adikiny]

First thing ought to be TREE-PLANTING in SAMBURULAND. It's a fact deserts in Africa and elsewhere are a result of tree-cutting. Really, no land in Africa was desertic before. However,just like in ancient Egypt, Industrial Revolution has always cut trees to use them in building of towns, factories and bridges. Samburu should take shoots of trees that grow in dry areas and plant them in Samburuland.This is what the ANCESTORS used to do and it's how they managed to have forests around them.