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Kenya's Water Crisis Kenya's property: Kenya is located in Eastern Central Africa. Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, and Somalia surround Kenya. On the Eastern side the Indian Ocean is the coastline of Kenya. The total area of Kenya is 580,367 kilometers squared. 536 kilometers of that is coastline. The total land area of Kenya is approximately 569,140 kilometers squared (98%). The water area is 11,227 kilometers squared (2%).

Kenya's climate and terrain: The climate varies. On the coast it is tropical. The interior is very arid it gets little rain, and is to dry for vegetation. This greatly affects the economics of Kenya. Only 9.48% of Kenya's land area is arable, or land used for farming.1,032 square miles of the land is irrigated.

Kenya's water facts: In Kenya there is 30.7 cu kilometers of water is renewable. The total water withdrawal is 2.74 cu kilometers a year (17% domestic, 4% is industrial, 79% is agricultural.) 39% of the total population dos not have access to an improved drinking water source. nearly 71% of the population does not have access to a sanitation facility. some waterborne sicknesses are bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever.

Kenya's Water Crisis: The total population of Kenya is 45,010,056 million people. Approximately 43% of the population is below the poverty line. They have a water crisis, because they don't have the access to potable, and safe water. Kenya has no physical water scarcity but has a lot of economic water scarcity, because they lack investment in water, also there is to much demand for water, but not enough for everyone there. People are planting special treatment plants to clean local water to help resolve the problem of water scarcity.