A fully matured tree loses upto 20litres of water to the atmosphere per day! They are the one reason residents of kathiani division of machakos..and iveti hills ...a rain catchment area for machakos..are for the first time ever facing famine!! Dun greedy idiots doin their best ravage the environment for 'big' money!!... Worse than stock brokers!

The race is not always to the swift..nor the battle always to the strong..nor food always to the wise..nor riches always to the intelligent..favor is not always to the skilled..or learned..but time and chance happens to all. Ecl9:5..

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If you have money that you expect to start using in five years,it now belongs in stocks.

Plant different trees! Fortunately some farmers are are trading eucalyptus for pine,wattle bark n others.

The race is not always to the swift..nor the battle always to the strong..nor food always to the wise..nor riches always to the intelligent..favor is not always to the skilled..or learned..but time and chance happens to all. Ecl9:5..

jammo the area you mentioned reminds me of sweet home . Are you from there?

It is very true. These trees just suck up water and wherever it (water) disappears to we do not know.
At our place,we had swampy invested with water reeds and the likes in the 80's. When grazing cows in those days and if they stray there,u just pray they do not drown,you just go home and wait for the cows to come by themselves home. if u makea mistake to follow the cows in the swamp,you could disappear in it. Bit by bit,the eucalyptus was planted in these areas. As they grew in length,the soil got drier season by season. Siku hizi,place is dry! Environmental hazard those trees are.