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Shotgun
#41 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:21:09 AM
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A local tale claims that Ondiri Swamp in Kikuyu Town extends all the way to Lake Naivasha. If that is true, and Nairobi is always hit by 'chronic water shortages', then I agree with McD. We may have all the resources in this country but do we have the resources (expertise and financial)and goodwill to fully exploit them?

I will give the Jubilee gaament the benefit of doubt.
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limanika
#42 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:31:20 AM
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Libya has constructed man-made river using underground water reserves similar to those in Turkana. Theirs could last 1000 yrs however!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
I hope you now understand why the West has raised eyebrows while here in Kenya most are asking … so what!
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MuchNo
#43 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:33:06 AM
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majimaji wrote:

sigh.


Heh heh heh... touché!
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McReggae
#44 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:36:08 AM
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limanika wrote:
Libya has constructed man-made river using underground water reserves similar to those in Turkana. Theirs could last 1000 yrs however!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
I hope you now understand why the West has raised eyebrows while here in Kenya most are asking … so what!


It's not that the discovery means nothing, the point some of us are raising here is that today Kenya already has excess water available that is easier to tap yet we are doing nothing about it!!!! This can't be compared to the oil that we have never had!......which year has ever passed without complains of floods in kenya......that is fresh water readily available and going to waste (causing destruction).....what about R. Tana in relation to the realitively dry Eastern Province?

Will Kenya deploy high technology to harness this water from the aquifier when nothing is yet to be done on harvesting the readily avaialble water....priority guys!!!!
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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limanika
#45 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:59:55 AM
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McReggae wrote:
limanika wrote:
Libya has constructed man-made river using underground water reserves similar to those in Turkana. Theirs could last 1000 yrs however!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
I hope you now understand why the West has raised eyebrows while here in Kenya most are asking … so what!


It's not that the discovery means nothing, the point some of us are raising here is that today Kenya already has excess water available that is easier to tap yet we are doing nothing about it!!!! This can't be compared to the oil that we have never had!......which year has ever passed without complains of floods in kenya......that is fresh water readily available and going to waste (causing destruction).....what about R. Tana in relation to the realitively dry Eastern Province?

Will Kenya deploy high technology to harness this water from the aquifier when nothing is yet to be done on harvesting the readily avaialble water....priority guys!!!!

Nobody has said they are going to exploit the reserve so you are jumping the gun here. What is exciting is the comfort to know that water scarcity is no reason not to invest in Turkana, and Kenya has a fall back plan if climate change turns for the worst.
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poundfoolish
#46 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:00:58 AM
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Ditto..in future that finding is a good thing..
As of now.. the Turkana continue with their lives..

The other problem is how the farming communites view semi Arid areas, as lacking and bad.
The Amazon is unbearable to any other people apart from the native tribes.. so is the Congo forest unless you are pygmy.

Dry does not necessary mean bad.. look at Las Vegas..
Bora maji ya kunywa. The Turkana population is doing just as fine as the Nairobi population is doing with its water.. not enough, but meets the needs..
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grolut
#47 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:04:05 AM
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dunkang wrote:
McReggae wrote:
murchr wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:
Isn't Turkana an alkaline lake?
yes it is thats why the water is un drinkable, but the water underground (over 100KM below surface) is fresh


Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly ...so it's easier to the get the water 100KM below than purify the alkaline water!!!

Wacheni kuropokwa wajameni. Even the deepest level below the ocean surface is not that deep!!!!

Kama mafuta inapatikana 1.2km below the earth surface, kwani hii maji yenyu ni magma?


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McReggae
#48 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:11:44 AM
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limanika wrote:
McReggae wrote:
limanika wrote:
Libya has constructed man-made river using underground water reserves similar to those in Turkana. Theirs could last 1000 yrs however!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
I hope you now understand why the West has raised eyebrows while here in Kenya most are asking … so what!


It's not that the discovery means nothing, the point some of us are raising here is that today Kenya already has excess water available that is easier to tap yet we are doing nothing about it!!!! This can't be compared to the oil that we have never had!......which year has ever passed without complains of floods in kenya......that is fresh water readily available and going to waste (causing destruction).....what about R. Tana in relation to the realitively dry Eastern Province?

Will Kenya deploy high technology to harness this water from the aquifier when nothing is yet to be done on harvesting the readily avaialble water....priority guys!!!!

Nobody has said they are going to exploit the reserve so you are jumping the gun here. What is exciting is the comfort to know that water scarcity is no reason not to invest in Turkana, and Kenya has a fall back plan if climate change turns for the worst.


You are reasonable in your defence, we almost in agreement now....before we get to this water, there is still so much we can do on matters water!!!!
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Lolest!
#49 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:24:45 AM
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McReggae wrote:
limanika wrote:
Libya has constructed man-made river using underground water reserves similar to those in Turkana. Theirs could last 1000 yrs however!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
I hope you now understand why the West has raised eyebrows while here in Kenya most are asking … so what!


It's not that the discovery means nothing, the point some of us are raising here is that today Kenya already has excess water available that is easier to tap yet we are doing nothing about it!!!! This can't be compared to the oil that we have never had!......which year has ever passed without complains of floods in kenya......that is fresh water readily available and going to waste (causing destruction).....what about R. Tana in relation to the realitively dry Eastern Province?

Will Kenya deploy high technology to harness this water from the aquifier when nothing is yet to be done on harvesting the readily avaialble water....priority guys!!!!

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Impunity
#50 Posted : Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:27:16 AM
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McReggae wrote:
limanika wrote:
McReggae wrote:
limanika wrote:
Libya has constructed man-made river using underground water reserves similar to those in Turkana. Theirs could last 1000 yrs however!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
I hope you now understand why the West has raised eyebrows while here in Kenya most are asking … so what!


It's not that the discovery means nothing, the point some of us are raising here is that today Kenya already has excess water available that is easier to tap yet we are doing nothing about it!!!! This can't be compared to the oil that we have never had!......which year has ever passed without complains of floods in kenya......that is fresh water readily available and going to waste (causing destruction).....what about R. Tana in relation to the realitively dry Eastern Province?

Will Kenya deploy high technology to harness this water from the aquifier when nothing is yet to be done on harvesting the readily avaialble water....priority guys!!!!

Nobody has said they are going to exploit the reserve so you are jumping the gun here. What is exciting is the comfort to know that water scarcity is no reason not to invest in Turkana, and Kenya has a fall back plan if climate change turns for the worst.


You are reasonable in your defence, we almost in agreement now....before we get to this water, there is still so much we can do on matters water!!!!


In Kenya water is not the problem, the issue is how to manage water water...we have more water that we actually need.

A country like Saudia has no single river, not even an inch of a river and yet they have more water than they need!
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