Mount Kenya: The glaciers and ice cap has been disappearing over the years. PHOTO | FILE
Mount Kenya, Africa’s second highest mountain and Kenya’s tallest, is one of the country’s water towers and a source of numerous rivers and streams that feed into the mighty Tana River — Kenya’s longest and the location of one of the country’s largest water reservoirs, the Masinga Dam — and the Ewaso Nyiro, which is the life line of the arid north.
Millions of people both upstream and downstream depend on the mountain for water.
