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Water Wars: Ethiopia and Kenya

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Kibera: Not a Drop to Drink

By CLP East Africa Team August 2008

The long rainy season in Kenya has begun and sudden storms regularly burst over Nairobi. Many welcome the downpours, which signal the end of another dry summer and wash the steamy crowded capital clean each morning.

As featured in Women's eNews, 1h2o.org, and Living on Earth. Produced in association with the Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting.

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Water Wars: Ethiopia and Kenya

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Kibera: Not a Drop to Drink

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