The Drowning Town: Why Kenya's Lake Baringo is bursting its banks
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Something strange is happening to Kenya’s Lake Baringo. Locals say we need to pay attention. We take you to #TheDrowningTown to understand why this lake is bursting its banks.
We answered some of your questions in this follow-up video - ruclips.net/video/d3Y5QZS4Drk/видео.html. Also, to find out more about this topic, read our interactive story here - debunk.media/climate/
Wow
this channel will win an award, top notch content
Or could merge with NTV like Chamwadas channel.
Another reason causing lakes in the rift valley to increase water volume is that the current tectonic cycle, known as near-field tectonic movement, squeezes out water from the Earth’s aquifers, causing the lakes to increase in volume. A tectonic cycle takes between 25 and 40 years, and the current cycle started in 1996.
The previous cycle, called far-field tectonic movement, caused water to drain out of the Rift Valley lakes into the Earth’s aquifers. It lasted from 1955 to 1995.
This is the best explanation I have come across.
Thanks for this information.
Nice information bro
Correct check out this piece. mg.co.za/africa/2020-09-25-disaster-as-climate-crisis-tectonic-shift-swell-rift-valley-lakes/
But this looks more like floods water. The heavy rains all over East Africa is to blame. I come from the banks of Lake of Kyoga in Uganda and people’s farms are flooded too. The water processing plant that supplies my town is submerged too
As a teacher of Geography this is interesting...good job on this!
😂😂😂😂
Nyi ndio wale walitusumbua na layers of Earth and big bang theory 🤣🤣
It's good to see a teacher here.
My house near lake Victoria was also submerged. Lake Victoria has also be rising. Nature will always win
As if humans aren't part of nature...
@@marangaondicho230 I never mention that human are not part of nature?!
So true... human beings only stop to think when nature fights back! When all is well they abuse it to the maximum.
Man was created to manage these resources have we?
Apart from news, this channel is very informative.
Even Lake Nakuru is raising. The old main gate eventually submerged.
Mother Nature is upset with people..
That's true. I noticed the same at lake Nakuru.
WOW!
Baringo is very unpredictable, we once went touring there, crossed a certain bridge with a completely dry river but a few hours later when we went to cross back, the bridge was completely submerged by the river.
Flashfloods.
Wow!
That high bridge sith a dry river bed.
Great Piece Debunk. Did you also consider the issue of tectonic movements along the Rift Valley as a possible cause?
Absolutely
I think so too
Good thinking👍👍👍
Yes. I think there's that too. Many lakes along the Rift valley are suffering the same fate. Including Lake Turkana.
Rift Valley is very active But the tectonic forces acting there are divergence which resulting to faulting. So if We are to talk of tectonic movement in rift valley, then we should have reduction of water in the lakes. But where its increase, that has resulted from Environmental degradation.
*STOP LOGGING OUR WATER CATCHMENTS* SIMPLE AS THAT! VACATE ALL FORESTS AND PLANT TREES EVERYWHERE.
Informative and sad...I still remember the government's tussle to save Mau, led by Raila (2009/10). Back then, he was labelled an enemy of the people. Lost all the support he had in North Rift (Baringo included) as a result. Little did they know that he was actually the one true friend...the guy who was trying to save them and was willing to sacrifice his political ambitions to do so....the guy who was not politicking with their future.
Exactly! The war is lost because once this lakes merge many lives will be affected...They are trying to plant trees now but that will take 100s of years and people still politic with the subject. Kenya is a funny country
Well at least it's not drying up. It would be sad if it was drying up.
Actually it will soon dry up. Watch the video again and listen to what they are saying. The water level is rising rapidly because of the silt deposits into the lakes making the water levels to rise while the top soil erosion is taking place due to the destruction of the surrounding catchment areas. Less and less trees and vegetation in the catchment area means there will be less and less rain for it is the forest (trees) that brings the precipitation.
Noah is not amused
You are so right
Lake Baringo and Bogoria may eventually join, but I am seeing a problem that was mentioned and wonder why it is not being addressed. "SILT" silt is building up in the lake causing the water to raise. I know some one will tell me that there is a much larger problem or perhaps how stupid I am. BUT here is an idea, what about using some sort of - I dont know what to call it actually but like where they mine sand from bodies of water by use of some kind of pump system. Why can not the silt be mined in such a way and deposited on the banks? Depending on the content of the silt could it not be used like fertilizer? What about creating embankments to help control the water using the silt. Just some idea's. It sounds like too miss management of forested land, over harvesting of the trees further up that is the catchment, of course this is the obvious statement but what about replanting of new growth? Why was not a plan put in place to regulate how much was harvested and re-planted? There many options I think that is not being looked into, and should. Kenya is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, and wants to be one of the tech hubs. So ok how about putting that technology to work to solve this problem in a wonderfully creative way to add another jewel to Kenya's crown?
The reason for the silt build up is soil erosion, which is caused by deforestation, so the best option would be to plant back more trees than have been cut.
If trees continue to be cut down, erosion will continue, and so will silt build up, which will compound the problem.
The word you're looking for is dredging. But look at the scale of the activity
Dredging being a very long term project na corruption in Kenya that will never happen.
This is just part one of mau forest deforestation effects. Wait for part 2, 3 ....6 of what Wangari Maathai warned us about effects of mother nature and deforestation.
@Imhotep Genius Watu wahamishwe mara moja tu
Mass education about the water catchment areas is what they need
I love this reporter's job and the narration 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿❤❤❤
This place can be very touristy if taken care of very beautiful
I traveled there in the Month of November, and if you observed the terrain, you will realise that even the road that is outscats the lake was once a lake. Thousands of years ago .
There was a time I was in Naivasha on September 2020, I was shocked a lot because the level of Lake Naivasha has also risen significantly. Enyewe kuna shida people have been displaced and even hotel resorts submerged
Moi and Ruto destroy everything.
And now the people at their 'base' will be the ones to feel the effects first hand.
The orator is awesome
That lake is reclaiming its land
I don't buy this "water runoff" as such and siltation stories..I think there's something happening underground in the Rift Valley given what we witnessed in Mai Mahiu and what has been happening in Ethiopia where land has been shifting splitting into deep trenches. The issue of flooding is repeated in Lakes Turkana, Bogoria, etc....some deep understanding need to be sought. We've had heavy rains before and this never happened, why now?
I agree
I’m in total agreement. I wish these investigative journalist would also focus on operations of utility and mining companies.
Agreed
Siltation is a fact. You need to witness it for yourself
Daniel Louis I’m certain it’s a contributing factor but we also require transparency with regards to operations of energy companies. Do they have our best interest at heart?
This water was meant to stay in the water table with the help of trees now it’s flooding the surface and will evaporate during drought
Evaporation is even helped to happen faster when there's a lot of trees around.
Bjay are you educated? If not educate yourself about the role of trees and environment.
People who wanted to save trees and the Mau were seriously fought by the people who MUST always oppose anything whether bad or good coming from the other side.
Kenya needs to review its land policies for the sake of its future generations. Otherwise we risk losing our ecosystem, wildlife and the dwindling nature.
Great piece! For years we've made politics around the issue of defforestion of catchment areas instead of taking active steps to conserve them. Chickens have now come to roost and collective mwananchi will suffer more than those who needed to leave forest land
Now on non of you want anything mind collectively. .your think
Be your own mind your own.
That explanation is simplistic. Siltation didn’t just happen this year to make the water level go up in just one year. This is something to do with Rift Valley plates tilting.
That is my take on it too. We didn't experience this hard rains in 2020 in Kenya to raise the level of almost all Kenyan lakes by up to 2m.... Lake Victoria, Baringo, Nakuru, Naivasha...
Brilliant journalism, Debunk!
Very informative and insightful reporting, unlike what we are fed on mainstream media. The reporter however (who speaks like John Allan Namu) needs to normalize introducing himself. Meanwhile, Lake Nakuru is also equally expanding. Climate change is real.
True.Lake Nakuru has done the same..I was there last year The acacia trees which were along the shores have since dried up coz of the floods.Secondly the old main gate was submerged and relocated.
This is a critical situation. Many thanks to Debunk for the documentary very well put together. Am however not surprised by this. I knew way back in 2005 that it was coming.
The main cause of this problem (we all know) is the cheap stupid politics that was sold to the ignorant locals in the 1990s, and early 2000s. When environmentalists raised concerns over the massive degradation of the Mau Forest, they were opposed bitterly by the local politicians and communities.
Mau forest was once the biggest catchment area of this region. All these lakes and rivers entirely depended on it. When the locals ignorantly started logging and turning huge chunks of it into farming lands, they probably didn't envisage the catastrophic impacts. Selfish local politicians incited them to rise against the efforts of afforestation/ forest conservation. Just remember how the 'Mau Evictions Campaign' was met by strong resistance between 2004 and 2006.
Today, Mother Nature is raging, and is vehemently showing the locals who's the boss. It's true, nature will always find its way. It's not too late though. The government can still act swiftly and salvage the already worsening situation.
Let the national and local governments work together to revive Mau. It might seem difficult now, but the gains will be great. It will sustainability benefit both the current and many future generations.
These local politicians are making millions from this and are busy investing somewhere else
Spot on
every single lake in the rift is rising. not just the ones fed by mau
Awesome content!
Thanks for this. I was wondering what was happening to Lake Baringo coz I see it in the news but no proper explanations offered. Maybe a case of poor journalism. Then also the attention this issue is receiving is so little as if there's no problem in Baringo. Why are our leaders talking daily about politics yet a whole town is literally on the verge of being sunk?
We need more of this type of videos...gives me a vox tyoa vibe...great work
Great theory but the significance seems small, we need to do more studies. The rise almost seems not relating to amount of rain received. Can someone quantify the mm of rainfall for the past 1 year?
Rudishiwa fees yako jamaa. Unafunzwa ukikataa🤣
@@PaddyKish254 tuna-analyze theories msee hehe
This water is seeping from underground......cause the levels are continuing to rise even in dry seasons without any rainfall
Thanks Debunk for enlightening this..
Is the Earth tilting it's Axis? Will the Sahara be green Again? Will lake Chad and Turkana be massive again?
Tectonic plates are shifting position
This will definitely happen but will take centuries
Yes the Sahara all the way to middle East will be green again, even the Koran says Allah will return when the desert gets green. Remember where the garden of Eden was at, twas green then and will be green again.
@@ericburner1243 They have been doing so for millions of years but probably it is now that we are seeing the effects however minimal.
@Abdiwahab Jamac you need to read proper, I did a random search , and there are several sightings, HYG aboutislam.net/multimedia/videos/deserts-will-turn-green-signs-last-hour/
All lakes in the rift valley are increasing in volume. Some have already merged.
Citation needed
@@taxstuff9530 yup
Great Content Packaging and it’s not just boring normal day News Style reporting.
Topnotch cinematography and style; Bravo! You must stay true to the science though; it remains unknown why this and other Rift Valley lakes have all risen dramatically over the past decade. It would be sufficient to report on such a story without having to reach a premature conclusion, just present all the floating theories, debunking is a process. Good luck!
1:42 and I have learned so much already
Nature has to fight back
Inaitwa Rue guchoka mukaro
There was this tale when we were
young that the rift valley will one day sink??? Has it began????😥😥
Seems to be somehow true
Gift of Good
you deserve 100k+ subscribers 🔥🔥🔥 bless up
Just seated on the banks of lake Baringo, reading comments from "couch experts" .
What is your version?
Keep reading, you will learn a lot from us. Au sio?
@Onyancha...I like to learn from people, my views are still pending thank you.
@Lutherswift...indeed that is my main focus..to learn alot from dedicated insiders like you. Hapo sawa..big up !
@Biggaone, my life raft is on stand by mode...ready to inflate. Just incase , the tide gets too high for my comfort. Have a dry day.
Great report here. But would you use the same reason for Lake Nakuru? I feel like their is something more than The catchment issues.
We are also having a lot of rain here in Mogadishu, Somalia and in the Northeast are getting cyclone clouds from Indian Ocean carrying lots rainfall and winds 60 mph to 120 mph ! Must be global warming !!
Let's all focus....the video is about over flooding in the Riftvalley lakes.....not cyclones in Mogadishu. Focus
@@annengei2885 It’s my opinion not yours ! I am giving you the broader information and changing climates of the regions.... the root causes ( Global Warming ).
@@raghedanan3959 we all know global warming is happening. But in this context global warming is out of place, and also the cyclones in Mogadishu are out of place in this issue. If it were global warming the lakes in rift valley could be getting the overflooding from ice which thaws to form water, which is not the case.
@@annengei2885 Arrogant !
@@raghedanan3959 I'm sorry.......have a blessed day ahead
Great piece.
Are this voices loud enough to be heard by everyone?.... EDUCATION to those in catchment areas... Government should have a day set a side for planting trees as a nation.
Wow!..amazing content.
The issue in Lake Baringo is not likely to be what the scholars are discussing. It is as a result of the geothermal activities in Baringo and areas around Nakuru and Naivasha.
How ? what r your basis
How about lake victoria??
The concept of silting is not selling. We should come up with another hypothesis
@@kiplimosammy if you try to model all factors contributing to this you can't leave siltation. All factors are important
@@MinionG911 Is is too sudden, and too fast to be explained away by siltation. And it appears to be concentrated in lakes in Rift Valley.
It was such a beautiful place to visit. Sad to see it succumb to flooding caused by man made environmental changes.
Raifall levels in East Africa have increased due to thermal cycles on Indian Ocean known as Indian Ocean dipole.
1. Mountain 🏔️ melt and go to lake.
2. No vegetation to hold water and rain. Vegetation hold water like like sponge. And gachagua want shamba system to go on.
3. Soil erosion soil replace water upland.
The waters are strong and its not by surprise that they can cover this whole universe. All we need to do is to protect it that's all. Protect mother nature, and you will protect you.
The same phenomenon is happening to lake naivasha , lake Nakuru , lake logipi all in the Rift Valley floor ...I think there is more to this than water runoffs and silting ..
An educational video
Very informative
Thank you 👌
High quality content
waoh, very informative. amazing aerial footage.
This happened in Uganda around lake Victoria not 4 month ago.i think the dams built on river Nile upper north can also be a reason
Fantastic video. Fantastic reporting. However, not even half the story has been told. There's far more to this than what's contained in this video. Scientists haven't given this matter the attention it deserves. It's scary to even imagine what awaits in the Rift valley.
I think the problem started when they started digging these geothermal plants.. coz that when all lakes in rift valley started reacting
Very Informative content. Soo Sorry to the resident's.
Isn't ridiculous that up to this very minute the government is yet to respond to this disaster!!So sad
A government that does not care, though we are our own enemy due to lack of failing to take care of our own environment.
Government na lake imeingiana watu? We can't oppose nature
Evacuation of the masses from the affected places is what the government ought to have done by now.I hope you understood me
So the govt is supposed to drink the water
Gamer 7739 Zz , 😂😂😂😂😂 hiyo ni kali.
May be the lakes need to be cleaned and conserved
Anybody know how the situation is now?
Nature always fighting back
Great content
Nature fighting back!
Hey man whatever happened to documentaries like these?
I dont think it's Silt, even Lake Nakuru is flooding, Some researchers said that another Ocean is forming in Africa which will separate our continent into two, I thnki the process has started and maybe the effects is now felt by these rift valley lakes
Like 2 years ago there was tremor that led to formation of large fissures on the ground. Me thinks the tremor could have interfered with the underground water table in the rift valley leading to the water to seep into the surface
My 2 cents
Otherwise the overflooding is too rampant......compared to the silt deposited on the lake beds. The siltation theory is not adding up
Let me get this right.
You cut trees, when they tell you to stop, you complain. Now it's flooding you want some form of help..
Typical Kenyans.. This is just observed across the board..
Even lake amboseli
Encroachment and anthropogenic activities seems a menace to most inhabitants of the lower ecological zones causing havoc
Those rivers, especially Molo river bring tonnes of soil into L. Baringo. Most of the soil is from the Mau.
I was here this year January and I saw how it had started bursting its banks
Why is this happening?? Corruption and incompetence!! Period!
Yes, mother nature is corrupt and incompetent 🙄
It's not a drowning town ,the lake is just regaining it's land🤣I am just celebrating
My idea for a long term solution is for the government to provide midwives across the country. When infant mortality rate drops people have fewer children and slower population growth allows more time to develop better social structures, economic growth and better land management.
God is angry. Nice content. Thanks.
It's the balance of the Erth
Is it not coming up from the Rift Valley flooding as the rift gets deeper ?
It's amazing that not once was the humanitarian crisis adressed. These people have to be relocated and compensated with land and money to rebuild their lives ASAP.
But the problem who is going to compensate them.
Yes, it is sad that humanitarian crisis was never addressed. Then again, where are the MCA, MPs etc they elected to represent them, who are supposed to push for their relocation!? This is the price we pay for ticking that box because of 200bob handout!
All lakes are rising including Victoria
All because of one man made problem rooted in greed , avarice, sickening stupid politics that destroys the water towers.
If this were the Netherlands, come on people!!!
The saddest part is that the trees are cut by the rich people with the intentions of enriching themselves more. Of course the common man is the one who suffers
The poor are the ones who cut trees
@SomaliSavage0 It is the rich (corrupt politicians) who settle the poor in forest catchment areas (just to score political points during electioneering periods) making them destroy the forests.
Poor people, rich people. Who cares. Everyone needs to do better!
@@topszn8791 True! Except that the greedy won't allow *"everyone"* to do better!
The cost of politicking in Kenya...In Kibaki's Government they tried remove guys from the catchment area...what happened? Fast Forward?...siasa duni maisha duni.
Intelligent channel
to many people, only ONE EARTH
STOP MAKING CHILDREN LIKE MAD OR EDUCATE THEM PROPERLY
I just feel very sad after watching this 😢😢
Whose voice is this? Is this John Allan Namu or Dennis Okari?
Whoever it is they are really cut out for this
Dennis okari
Sounds to me like Allan Namu
Ian wafula
@@otienooduor9702 namesake.
It's sad Human kind is the most destructive of all the creation ,yet he was given dominion over all others to take care of all the rest. It's very Godly to take care of our environment . It takes mins to bring down a tree that took years to grow. Trees play such an important part of the ecosystem if you have to cut 1 plant 10 for the generations to come .
Nooooooooooooooooo to dams!!!!!!!!!!!! It will destroy the fishing and sea life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your missing 50% of the why. You see plants give off roughly 99.9% of water what they absorb. So a massive chunk of that water that isn't being displaced isn't factored into your models.
Man, I have first world problems. This is sad, use the water help these humans.
same thing happening at Lake Naivasha
The channel put subtitles when locals were talking despite being eloquent, I don't think they would appreciate that
It helps those cant hear ....which i believe most videos don't consider.
Mother nature warns you over time, until she realizes she is dealing with bunch of airheads... she grabs humanity by the horns with little to no mercy, strikes back and strikes hard. California and Oregon still smoked out, wildfires consuming millions of land leaving a hellish landscape... these lakes are fighting back and re-taking their territory by force, crocodiles and snakes included.
Hydro electric dams built on the Nile river in the north of Africa can also contribute to this
how, nile waters can't flow back to Kenya, this is due to increased rainfall caused by the 7 year cycle in Indian Ocean called Indian Ocean dipole
Guys this has nothing to do with climate change.... This is typical a geological phenomenon.
Nyie wanajiografia kwa sababu mzungu kasema climate change basi na nyie mnaimba the same song.
Rising water levels may be caused by:-
1. too much rainfall
2. Melting ice
3. Subsidence.
4. Change of orientation of sub-surface fractures.
Therefore before zeroing to climatic change one has to ask himselfDoes it mean mvua zimeongezeka huko upstream? Au kuna barafu zinayeyuka?
Guys work up... Geology of lake any rift valley lake including lake Baringo is the affect much by it's underlyinggeology
Nikikuuliza... Barafu itayeyukia wapi na tunaongea kuhusu barafu? Shida ni ya kijiolojia
So what triggered ice sheets melting.. Increased Temps in the atmosphere..
I don't buy the silting explanation. Lakes Nakuru, Naivasha and Victoria are experiencing the same phenomenon the latter with interesting implications on the Nile River. Is the issue the degradation or improvement of the catchment areas?