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By Dominic Kirui, Thomson Reuters Foundation
6 Min Read Residents say sometimes they go two weeks without clean water Researchers warn digging wells deeper could turn freshwater saline
LAMU, Kenya, June 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Hellen Achieng’ moved from a village near Lake Victoria to an island off of Kenya’s coast, she never imagined she would have trouble finding the one resource she took for granted at her old home: water.
Eating lunch with her two daughters, Achieng’, who mines coral for a living, explained there is only one well on Manda Island, so residents rely on a weekly delivery of freshwater by boat from nearby Lamu Island.
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Eating lunch with her two daughters, Achieng , who mines coral for a living, explained there is only one well on Manda Island, so residents rely on a weekly delivery of freshwater by boat from nearby Lamu Island.
But a months-long dry spell has made the supply unreliable - sometimes two weeks go by between deliveries, she said. And when the water does arrive, each household is limited to 40 litres at a time, she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.