KENYA WATER CONTAMINATION

BACKGROUND INFO

• The local population is 43.18 million people
• Began in 1980
• The problem was detected during systematic analyses of Kenya's water
• This analysis began in 1934 by the British Crown

MAP OF KENYA AND THEIR MAIN RESOURCES

REASONING BEHIND IT

• Suffer from frequent droughts
• WaterAid returned to Kenya in 2008
• Very poor and cannot afford adequate water filters
• About 80% of the country is arid
• Droughts

REASONING CONTINUED

• Forest degradation
• Floods
• Poor management of the supply
• Water contamination especially in slums
• Population growth

BAD EFFECTS

• Unprotected against sporadic epidemics such as cholera and parasitic worms.
• Poverty
• Inequality
• Government Failure
• Due to recurrent droughts the crops and families that rely on the are effected

EFFECTS CONTINUED

• Many diseases
• Malaria

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

• Rehabilitation of Kenya's water infrastructure
• Water resources information management
• Water storage and harvesting
• National water and supply sanitation
• The UN is providing support and so is the PRSP

SUGGESTIONS

• Conserve the recently found aquifer water
• Dig deeper into the ground

INTERESTING FACTS

• Kenya is roughly the same size as Texas
• After coffee Kenya's biggest income is tourism
• Most Kenya's are either very poor or very rich
• Kenya at one point was once a British Colony
• Kenya is on the equator so they only have two seasons

INTERESTING FACTS CONTINUED

• Their main languages are English and Swahili
• Hunting is illegal in Kenya
• Kenya won its independence in 1963
• Currency is One Shilling=100 cents
• More than 650,000 tourists visit Kenya

VIDEO ABOUT KENYA

SOURCES

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com
• http://www.thewaterproject.org
• World Bank
• american.edu