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Drought watch: Hopelessness as the last of Tana River's water pans dries up

The dry Bulto Abarufa water pan in Galole, Tana River County.

Photo credit: Stephen Odour I Nation

For six years, the Bulto Abarufa water pan supplied the important commodity for more than 30,000 residents in Tana River’s Galole constituency.

The 50 million cubic metre water capacity reservoir served residents during the worst of droughts when the other seven had no water.