Water level fluctuations in the Rift Valley lakes are not new. Lake Naivasha, for instance, was reduced to a puddle around 1850 and particularly low levels persisted throughout the 1940s and 1950s.

With a surface area of 130 sq km and an elevation of around 970 m, the lake has an average depth of around 5 m and it is one of the two freshwater lakes in the Rift Valley – the other being Lake ...

45 COM 7B.7 Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya) (N 1060rev) The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Document WHC/23/45.COM/7B, Recalling Decisions 39 COM 7B.5, 41 COM 7B.21, 43 ...

Experts have warned that three lakes in the Rift Valley region are at risk of being placed on the 'danger list' by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

Kenya: Population growth, wanton destruction and encroachment on water catchment areas are the factors attributed to the flooding that has led to the abnormal rise of water in the Rift Valley lakes.

The Highlands West of the Rift Valley, the Lake Victoria Basin, and parts of the Rift Valley — including Nandi, Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma, Siaya, Busia, Baringo, Nakuru, Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu ...

A FLOCK of flamingos flies across this otherworldly background in the Great Rift valley. Phillip Chang, an amateur photographer from the US, took this shot from a helicopter about 150 metres above ...

Letter Published: 18 November 1967 Lake Levels and Quaternary Climates in the Eastern Rift Valley of Kenya CELIA K. WASHBOURN Nature 216, 672–673 (1967) Cite this article ...

A Taiwanese tourist was mauled to death by a hippo this weekend near Lake Naivasha in northern Kenya 's Great Rift Valley. The attack happened just hours after a fisherman was killed by a ...

43 COM 7B.33 Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya) (N 1060rev) The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Document WHC/19/43.COM/7B, Recalling Decisions 39 COM 7B.5 and 41 COM 7B.21, ...