Destruction of Mau forest adding to Kenya's drought problems

Land hunger eats into Kenya’s fragile forest (Financial Times) NAIROBI, Kenya -

“The forest was once a 400,000 hectare thicket of trees spread across the rolling hills of the southern Rift Valley, which captured rain water and funnelled it via aquifers into 12 rivers and five big lakes. But since the early 1990s nearly 30 per cent of it has been destroyed, according to the United Nations, by approximately 40,000 settlers who have cleared the cedar trees to make way for farm plots on which they grow wheat, cabbages and tomatoes.

The result is reduced rain capture and weaker river-flow downstream – effects compounded by droughts linked to global warming – and that has direct consequences for two pillars of Kenya’s economy.”

1billion people are without safe water world wide.

You can help by building sand dams in Kenya.