The Ewaso Nyiro River flows down from Mount Kenya to water the dry plains that stretch east from the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. The sparsely populated plains are a haven for wildlife, which rely on the river as a source of water. Multiple public and private wildlife reserves, including Samburu national reserve and Buffalo Springs national reserve, line the banks of the river. In 2009, the river wasted and then went dry as the region sank into severe drought. The dry river bed is exposed here
Photograph: EO-1/NASA
The Guardian
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