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Water Crisis In Kenya 2019 – Causes, Effects And SolutionsWater has always been essential to the survival of humankind. However, this water must be drinkable, otherwise serious problems may occur. Drinking water isbecoming scarce, especially for the poor in Kenya. In this country, one third of the population does not have access to drinking water and nearly two-thirds lack basicsanitation.

Water Crisis In Kenya Causes Effects Solutions

The lack of clean and safe drinking water in Kenya (http://lotus.co.ke/clean-safe-drinking-water-in-kenya/) is a very serious problem, as there are more than 1.6 millionchildren under the age of �ve who die every year in the world. This equates to the death of a child every 19 seconds. In short, we can conclude that drinking water islacking for many people, especially in Kenya.

In Kenya, Nairobi is thirsty.  The capital has been suffering from years of water shortages. The Ndakaini Dam provides water to Nairobi and currently has only 45% of itsnormal level because the rains of late 2017 and 18 have been disappointing. There would be a shortage of 200,000 cubic meters of water a day to support Nairobi andits 4 million inhabitants.

Causes Of Kenyan Water Crisis in 2018 (http://lotus.co.ke/water-crisis-in-kenya-causes-effects-solutions/)Kenya has highly polluting mining plants and they dump toxic substances into rivers. For example, large mining companies are accused of dumping radioactivepollutants into waterways.

In addition, each year, the Rivers receives 50 tons of uranium spilled from gold mines. The 150,000 people living in shanty towns along this river draw their waterdirectly.

In another place, lakes, which was a good �shing area, now has a high concentration of uranium (16 mg/liter) and a pH of 2.2. This water is acidic like lemon juice and isclassi�ed radioactive zone by the NNR (National Nuclear Regulator). In short, all these waters are now much too polluted and wasted.

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A woman seeks water in a dry riverbed near Kataboi village in remote Turkana in northern Kenya.

Effects and consequences of Water Crisis In KenyaIt is estimated that by 2020 there will be between 75 and 250 million Africans who will not have enough water to survive. While some Africans must be content with 10to 40 liters of drinking water, other humans consume 600 liters a day, especially in America. The impacts of polluted water mainly affect the poor who live in unhealthyplaces of Kenya.

According to studies, it would be women and children who would suffer the most from lack of water. In some areas of Kenya, women have to walk up to two kilometersto fetch water. It has happened that women were killed by crocodiles when they were only going to get water. This proves that their living conditions are insane.

The poor who are forced to use polluted water often �nd themselves with health problems because of the bacteria found there. It is estimated that almost half of Kenyasuffer from diseases caused by this lack of water. The consumption of polluted water causes most of the time diarrhea diseases such as dysentery, typhoid, cholera, etc.

In addition, this can lead to skin diseases, such as scabies. We can, therefore, conclude that the lack of drinking water and the use of polluted water is catastrophic.

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Solutions to Water shortage in KenyaAlthough there are many poor people in Kenya. Unfortunately, the money from this country is mostly used for oil and diamond mines, because it brings money back tothe country. On the contrary, with this money, we should think about installing infrastructures to make drinking water.

For example:

Tidal power

Tidal power plants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power) to purify water could be installed in the Atlantic Ocean, since it is located right next to South Africa.These tidal power plants draw their energy from the force of the tide. With this process, the water that is collected to produce energy could be �ltered later by a �ltersystem (reverse osmosis).

Like this, These plants will not only produce energy from renewable resources, but will �lter polluted water for more people to bene�t from it. Since these plants userenewable and non-polluting energy, this reduces the concentration of pollution added to water.

On the other hand, these plants are not yet as ef�cient as others, because they are little used, therefore not very pro�table. It should, therefore, build improved versions,so that they are more ef�cient and therefore more pro�table.

Water meters(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_metering)

Facilities should be developed to distribute drinking water so that it is accessible to everyone. To avoid wasting good water, such as watering the land for hours, watermeters should be installed. On the other hand, these meters should be installed in homes whose owners have a minimum wage of 50,000 KSh per year, per person.

Thus, people who use water excessively, would be obliged to pay a �ne. In this way, people will pay more attention to their consumption of drinking water because theywill not want to spend more money.

Use Puri�er to clean drinking water

It is fundamental to purify our drinking water, but also water for food preparations, indeed the water we consume, is a real time bomb.

Pollutants slowly intoxicate us and mineral salts in tap water, suspended for larger molecules or dissolved for smaller traces (pesticides and nitrates, fertilizers, heavymetals, residues chlorinated, alumina salts, oxidized mineral salts, etc.).

The appearance of certain cancers, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis would be the consequence of the regular consumption of such more or less polluted waters.

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