East Africa IRES #5: The river that doesn’t flow
by stacyjlynn
Blog Post by Holly Cox, 2015-16 EA-IRES Fellow June 15, 2016 After visiting a few homesteads (called “manyattas” in the Samburu language) during our first week of field research in Samburu County, Kenya, I have begun seeing patterns and similarities in water resource locations and management from my interviews with the women. Generally, the women have two options for water retrieval in the places that we have visited so far: a local borehole well, or the “River”. Walking to a flowing […]
Categories: Education, From the Field • Tags: clean water, EA-IRES, East Africa, livelihoods, Pastoral Systems, soil, water, watershed science