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Harvesting drinking water – ingenious local use of geothermal vents in Kenya

Alexander Richter

3 years ago

Check out these pictures from local farmer’s ingenious approach to harvest drinking water from steam vents at Eburru, Kenya.

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We have heard discussions about local farmers using steam vents at the Eburru geothermal field in Kenya to harvest drinking water. Now for the first time we stumbled across pictures in two tweets by Photos for Trees Kenya.

Check them out below.

Harvesting drinking water from the #steamvents of #Eburu #geothermal #GeologyPage #worldwaterday #geology #riftvalley pic.twitter.com/5XJMuSbWwr

— Photos for Trees Kenya? (@PhotosForTrees) March 6, 2022

The #steamvents of #Eburu #geothermal #GeologyKE pic.twitter.com/6xtjfs4GaW

— Photos for Trees Kenya? (@PhotosForTrees) March 6, 2022

Alexander Richter

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