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People are walking miles for clean water in drought-struck Kenya — and finding none
Drone footage released by ActionAid U.K. shows locals drawing water from a dried-up riverbed in Kenya. A drought in East Africa that has left more than 16 million people facing famine, according to ActionAid U.K. (ActionAid U.K.) Imagine walking three or four miles to get a drink. It’s hot, it’s dry — there’s no water where you live. You arrive at what used to be the nearest river but it’s now a beach-like strip of dirt. Yes, there is water, but it’s opaque with mud at the bottom of a small well dug in hopes of finding moisture beneath the former riverbed. The effects of climate change in the developing world is rarely illustrated in such a clear way; the water is gone, and people are enduring the fight of their lives for…