PhD thesis Title Page Final _Richard Juma - Victoria University ...

and Suguta. According to Norconsult (1990), these rivers have water from
three to ten months of the year. The seasonal Tarach River in the
northwest empties into the Lake Lotikipi plain; otherwise 80 per cent of the
district drains into Lake Turkana. Many other water courses flow only
during the rains, which may be from a few hours to a few weeks per year.
Immediately after a storm, they rage in flood, flow for a brief period, and
then cease leaving pools of water and deposits of silt and debris (Gulliver
1955).
Figure 9 Turkana women looking for water.
Source: UNDP 2000: 22.
Informants stated that clean drinking water is a limited resource in
Turkana. This is not different with circumstances facing the Dinka
pastoralists in southern Sudan. Operation Lifeline Sudan (2002) reported
that safe water is probably the most critical issue in southern Sudan.
Three quarters of the southern Sudanese people do not have access to safe
water (Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) 2002). For the Turkana people, they
107