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Linking Sasumua conservation to Nairobi city water supply: Kenya - Sasumua Project

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Built post-independence, the Sasumua dam in the upper ridges of the Aberdare Mountains provides Nairobi with 20 percent of its fresh water. However, intensive human activity within the dam’s watershed is causing sedimentation and water contamination.
    Publication year

    2009

    Authors

    World Agroforestry

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    ecosystems, water, environment, ecology, services

    Geographic

    Kenya

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