Lake Baringo swallowed up the lesser-known Lake 94, and proceeded inland for about eight miles, while Lake Oloiden disappeared into Lake Naivasha’s clutches. Lake Turkana swept past the Barrier volcanic complex – four overlapping volcanoes that had previously separated it from the much smaller Lake Logipi, which it now swallowed whole. Benjamin Cheboi, however, the then governor of Baringo County, disputes this, and says that he and Onywere never met. He claims the governor showed little interest. Onywere, who has the air of a stern, experienced teacher, went to see the governor of Baringo County a few months later, but without much hope. Lake Nakuru, which was previously enclosed by a national park, now extended beyond it.
In Baringo, schools had been flooded and people had been displaced. So had Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in the world.īy September 2013, after further investigation and mapping, it was clear to Onywere and his colleagues how extreme the damage was. As he extended his search, he saw that Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, had flooded, too.
Then Onywere searched for images of some of the lakes nearby: Lakes Bogoria, Naivasha and Nakuru. The images showed that the lake had, in the past year, flooded the area around it. Onywere rushed back to Nairobi, where he and his colleagues at several Kenyan universities studied recent satellite images of the lake.
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