Bro...tukuwe positive kidogo...

And then there's the giant Turkana wind power project.........

Not unless the jamaa has some very advanced knowledge on desalination, na huyu jamaa sio mjinga, then we would be the fools, otherwise i agree, aibu kubwa!

Asi!@MC is opposing the water find ama ni nini? Do we need a toothcomb on this one? hahahaha..There is a time we landed at an airstrip(sio landing ya wazua),i forget the name and the heat in that place is unimaginable. So kama kuna tone ya maji imepatikana huko,hiyo ni habari njema,let's remain positive,opposition sio kusema mlima kenya uko pwani

Halafu we will use it to fulfill the dreams in the manifesto,one such dream is irrigating some (i forget the figure) hectares of land

Poleni kisugu ndio ilikuwa imesidi
->The aquifer is approximately 100 km (62 miles) by 66 km (41 miles).
->It has a surface area of 4,164 km2.
->It contains an estimated 200 billion cubic metres of fresh water.
->Lotikipi alone holds 900% more than Kenya's current water reserves..
-> To hit water you'll drill 300m Umetosheka sasa?

As for makerege construction of a desalinator is about $2.9 billion excluding maintenance and investing in the technical know how. So which is better drill or tap a drying lake?

How come these days you seem to be bila news bytes? Siku za breaking ziliisha
Ndio hio source:http://www.itv.com/news/2013-09-10/kenya-water-aquifer-found-in-lotikipi/

So whats the plan? Drill and create a river meandering through the North West?

Dont they still require to drill boreholes as has been the case?

Or we are happy because since it is breaking news. Explored by the Japanese and UN agency, and announced by the govt after being first being news in the Beeb a day earlier?

As a person who has done consultancy on the matter in that area.. shida sio hiyo maji there has always been water down there, how much is what is breaking news. how to get it out is what has always been the problem
A modest complete water system will cost 100m drilling, pumping and storage
Now. if the news was 10billion discovered to drill n supply water for Turkana. I would be celebrating...
the rest is good facts. like the icebergs at poles being fresh water yadda yadda yadda...

Note. its the water in the lake that is alkaline.. what about the rivers flowing into it?

"Mwafrika nywele ngumu, mambo yake ngumu tu!"- Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi

lets not be confrontational just because its Mc Reggea who questioned the big deal on the discovery.

Sahihisha hii sentensi

she's colour blind - red and orange look the same.

The lack of action by past governments should not be used as reasons to do nothing now at the government and the personal level.

The main role of gava is to de-risk the process of natural resources exploitation. Its interesting that during the Moi error, we had nothing, during Obako's all this wealth discoveries started trickling in, and now with the UHURUTO government, we are realising that we have massive mineral potential and now enough water under the scorching Turkana landscape to quench the thirst of the whole country.

The most important thing is that we now know where to get water should we need some more, we had no idea about the Turkana water potential yesterday. This is good news and worth shouting about methinks.