Al Jazeera English 
Rising water levels along Kenya’s Great Rift Valley have forced thousands of people from their homes.
There are also fears of an ecological disaster as two lakes are getting closer – causing fear of contamination, and threatening wildlife and livelihoods.
Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi explains.
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Most African politicians would talk without any action till the world ends.
They see everyday to be an election campaign day.
As report didn't mention when this will happen, my guess it's like 100 yrs, if it was 20 yrs reporter would have said so to stir up more 'feelings' Pretty ironic the woman works on helping arid land farming next to a lake that is rising 2 cm a day. Might I suggest USE THE LAKE WATER FOR IRRIGATION and if pumps aren't feasible the rivers flow DOWNHILL to the lake, intercept them UPHILL of the lake and funnel water out into catchments / reservoirs dry stream beds where more catchments can be built. I'm sure people won't want to give up any of their land for these THAT's YOUR BIG PROBLEM TO ADDRESS, compensating those helping all. Might try a co-op w part of increased agriculture of those getting water going back to people whose land is used for canals etc. If people distrust ea so much, maybe that land can be donated to a church who then gets and distributes food,
BUILD A BARRIER BETWEEN THE LAKES?? THE barrier could be Banyan trees,,, Someone with this knowledge should write an article on it,,, then try to get it published in National Geographic Magazine,,, Be sure to stump for all the solutions that people put forward… there are People who has seen this problem solved before… Best wishes ❤ for a timely solution…
Leaders are eating covid 19 money this country
I will love to breathe the breath of my motherland
The earth doesn’t care about humans.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
This is a wake up call to everyone that if we will not this make an action , not only poor will possibly affected to this kind of event.
I ask Dear God humbly to Bless the true believers of Kenya.💕🍑🌺🍭🍏🌹🍓🎂☀️🍰🥜🦁😀🍎🌈🍁🍿🍿💐🌸🍉🌿🌾🍄🍄🥝🍦🌽🌷🌼🌼❤️🕌❤️🕌❤️🕌❤️🕌
The temperature gets warmer, and there's drought; climate change.
The temperature drops and there's flooding; climate change.
No one seems to question why it is no matter what the weather does, it's climate change.
One should question anyone who tells you to fear the end of the world, but if you give them your freedom, your political power, and your money, they'll save you.
They predicted the swallowing of islands and coastal areas; didn't happen. They predicted the end of ice on both poles; didn't happen. They predicted starvation due to drought; didn't happen. They predicted starvation because of floods; didn't happen. They predicted war and doom; didn't happen. They keep being wrong, keep changing their stories, yet people still believe them. Nothing they predicted came true. Nothing happening now, hasn't happened before.
Maybe it's time to stop listening to fools, and stop paying them. Others have gone through these things, no extinction happened, and those people had less technology.
Climate change is a complete lie.
It's not raining in Kenya. Liars
It's not just Kenya got affected by floods this year, many countries being floods this time of the year.
Guys…. I'm confused…..we used to hear deforestation reduces amount of rainfall and as a result natural springs dry up…..
But what I do not understand this concept that deforestation has caused to the rise of the water levels in of the lake.
Or ndio inamaana hatukuwa tukielewa science ya Wazungu…..
Let's think twice before we start again to sing the song Wazungu wants us to sing.
Hey Kenyans wake up… wake up
Kenya harvest this water and export it to Egypt if you dont need it, there people are desperate of this commodity.
Colonizers and their lies. Always poke nosing where they are not wanted. Hopefully the only place we see them in future are museums..
The only thing you see in our local television is only politics🤔🤔
Can you find some positive news to report about Kenya? We are tired of your negative nonsense.
why does two lakes coming together cause contamination
It has happened before in the early 1960s 62 or 63 and probably happened many times before that.
These people never have anything positive to say about any African country.. these problems are happening in different parts of the world 🙄
Building a barrier is the worst idea ever. Interfering with nature will only make it worse. Resettle the people, and let nature take its course. Besides, according to the report, the water is rising at 2cm a day. The same report says the distance between the lakes is 13 km. At that rate, it will take more than 1000 years for the 2 lakes to merge. Who is to say the lakes wont reverse and start shrinking after 10 years!!?
In our local news it's about bbi and one man one shilling vote
TBT. Maybe 1_2yrs ago. This is not current news
2020
We have a very useless government in Kenya they will start rushing their the very last minute and whatever they do will be mired in corruption!
Don't you read the signs of time?….''go to that town, you will find a MAN carrying a pitcher of WATER on his head, follow him to the house he enters. He will show you a room on the upper floor, prepare that room…'' age of Aquarius is here.
The same thing is happening in Uganda, Lake Albert and Lake Victoria are rising 🤔
The two lakes are separated by hills
more rain is falling on Eastern Mau filling the lakes, due to climate change thats strengthening Indian Ocean monsoon wind, while weakening The Atlantic westerlies that bring rain on Western Mau which drains into Nile, this together with Ethiopian dams, complicates water problems facing Egypt
Our stupid politicians they still alocate land at our water catchment ~~~~~“““~~~“~
Anyone who knows their history knows, lake Nakuru, Elementaita and Naivasha were one lake. No colonial house was destroyed because they built them on higher lands knowing this. The only people devastated by this are people who encroached on the lake knowingly or unknowingly.
The Kenyan government should never have let this happen. Stop making this about global warming and deforestation. It happened in early 1900's and around the 50s or 60's.
It will happen again.
Nothing can be done now that BBI is here🤦
Another sign that the end of planet earth is near, the Almighty, who created it will soon appear in the skies to redeem His own.
BbI Politics has blindfolded many or is it ignorance. This is disastrous. Something need to be done to safe residents of that area.