Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting / Kajiado, Kenya - 3R and MUS
In Kajiado town, the SASOL Foundation, ICRAF and the Masai Technical Training Institute will implement a project to demonstrate and research the potential of rainwater harvesting for food security, focusing largely on 3R technologies (Recharge, Retention and Re-use).
The project is located near the campus of the training institute in atypical landscape of this region, which consists mainly of rocky soils with course sands. The water harvesting technologies to be implemented consist of a number of check dams that provide water for pasture and watering animals. In this program several organisations will participate amongst whom the students of Masai Technical Training Institute. The students will be trained to construct small and simple structures to capture runoff water. The aim of the project is to demonstrate and research, but also to familiarize an important group of people with the 3R method.
