Baringo women and children have been forced to spend the night outside their homes in search of water.
The women have to scoop sand at the county’s riverbeds after the springs dried following a prolonged dry spell in the region.
More than 10,000 children from Baringo North, Tiaty, and Baringo South are on the verge of dropping out of school due to water scarcity and hunger.
"I have been here the whole night only to fetch two 20litres jerry cans," Gladys Jebet told The Star at Cheptoriot River in Kerio Valley on Sunday.
"Where are our leaders to help us in this situation?"
she asked.
"I also have to leave my 4-year-old child under the care of his father in the night to beat the long queues at the dry rivers," she said.
Those with livestock are forced to travel for kilometres to water their animals at Kerio River, which is at the Baringo and Elkeyo Marakwet border.
The residents appealed to the government through the area MPs William Cheptumo, William Kamket, and Grace Kipchoim to deploy water bowsers to the area.
Last Wednesday, Water PS Fred Segor deployed six water bowsers to serve residents of Tiaty, a move that locals in Baringo North and Baringo South.

The national government on Wednesday availed six water trucks to supply clean water to drought residents of Baringo county who are experiencing acute water shortage.
Water PS Professor Fred Segor launched the exercise a week after media expose.
The water will be supplied by the Rift Valley Water Services Authority tracks Segor noted there is hunger in area due to prolonged drought, a situation that would see many schools closed unless the government moves with speed to supply relief food.
He however disputed claims that some schools in the area had been closed down due to water scarcity.
He said the government will sink 30 boreholes and open up pan dams as a lasting solution to water challenges in the lowland areas.
More than 200 schools are facing closure as residents are forced to trek 30 kilometres in search for water both for their livestock and domestic use.
On Friday last week, Tiaty residents stormed Riongo Primary School armed with clubs, sticks and pandas, and threatened to have the school closed down so as to migrate with their children in search for water and pasture.
The school is among 11 schools about to be closed in Silale Ward alone whereas 118 schools face similar water challenge.
Segor said the supply will go on until the rains start in April.

The dire situation is blamed on total crop failure and last year’s politics.
He spoke to the media in Kabarnet town yesterday.
Cheptarus urged teachers to assist leaders and parents in mobilising children to resume school.
A spot check by the Star along the Kerio Valley in Baringo North on Monday revealed poverty, hunger and water shortage.
Some children from more than 30 schools in the county are yet to resume schools this term.
The majority are at home assisting their parents with household chores, herding livestock and trekking for long distances in searching of water.
Resident Reuben Aengwo, a parent at Cheptigit Primary School said half of the pupils have not gone to school.
“At one time the school had a class eight stream, but due to harsh drought conditions, pupils dropped out.
Rains failed from last July.
He appealed to the state to start a school feeding programme to attract children in the arid and semi-arid areas back in school.