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Over the last three years, residents living around Kenya’s water bodies have borne the brunt of climate change, due to the overflow of water. In a report by the United Nations Environment program, an estimated 37,000 families around Lake Victoria have been displaced by the lake’s rising waters with thousands of others around Lakes Baringo and Turkana also being displaced by flooding occasioned by the lakes’ backflow. Laura Otieno now takes stock of life beyond the waters, in the scramble between man, nature and beast.
Rise in water levels displaces families living near water bodies
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