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Kenya, contaminated (polluted) water sources, causes serious watery…

- - - - some places along the Tana have dried up
        
        there isn't enough water
        
        people have to walk far away from home for water
        
        Marian Opius walks two hours every day to fetch drinking water for herself and her family of 10 people
        
        Cheru and her other children in West Pokot walk 6 kilometers to find water
        
        people get water from ponds, wells, or hole on the ground
        
        the water people fetch from ponds and wells is warm (perfect place for bacteria to grow)
        
        fights between the borders of Borana and Garre worse
        
        around 500 people have been killed so far
- - - - another 41,000 were cut down by illegal settlers
      - affects rain pattern
      - since 2001, about 60,000 hectares of trees have been cut down and have been used for farmland
        
        no trees to hold down the soil
        
        soil sediments coming from the forest get into the rivers when it rains
        
        causes soil erosion
        
        affect the country's drinking supply
        
        leads to increased run-off
        
        dirt in the Mau Forest washes into other waterways, including 12 rivers, on rainy days
- - - - millions of Kenyans are unable to grow their crops and keep their livestock alive
        
        In the last decade, there were four major food crises all due to drought
      - people are fighting over water
        
        In 2006, people in a Kenyan tribe in Oropoyi, Kenya, saw a boy killed and dozens of women beaten just for trying to get a drink of water.
        
        Another fight over water in Kenya broke out in 2019, leaving eleven people dead and two people injured.
        
        This January, police were sent to the northwestern part of Kenya to control a violent fight between Kikuyu and Maasai groups over water. More than 20 people died in fighting in January. By July, the number of deaths rose to 90.