‘How do I survive?’ Drought plagues Kenya’s Turkana amid surplus elsewhere
Al Jazeera
As a quarter of Kenya’s population faces severe food shortages, up to 40% of the food produced is lost or wasted each year.
Turkana, Kenya – In the relentless heat of Kainama in Turkana county, Veronica Akalapatan and her neighbours walk several kilometres each day to a half-dried-up well surrounded by the parched earth of northern Kenya.
The dug-out hole in the ground with a wooden ladder is the only source of water in the area. Hundreds of people from several villages – and their livestock – share the well, most waiting hours to fill up small plastic buckets with meagre amounts of unclean water.
“Once we get here, we dig for water in the well and collect fruit. We wait for the water to fill the well,” says Akalapatan. “We take turns to fetch it because there is so little. There are many of us, and sometimes we fight over it.”
In Turkana, the land is rugged, roads disappear into dust, and villages are scattered across vast distances in a county of just more than a million people.
Despite it being the rainy season, weather experts warn that Turkana and other arid regions may receive little relief.
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