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Scientists say that one of the most drought-prone regions in the Horn of Africa is lying atop vast reserves of water. Test drilling has confirmed the existence of two aquifers under Kenya's northern Turkana district.

CGIAR Climate's insight:
DR. JAMES KINYANGI: At the face of it we would expect that there would be a total transformation.

WARNER: James Kinyangi directs East African research at an international climate change and food security institute. In a way, he says, a blooming desert city in Turkana would be a kind of poetic justice for Kenya's poorest and driest county, an arid and, at times, lunar landscape hard hit by climate change and periodic drought. But he says, in order to use the water, the nomadic people of Turkana would have to settle down around wells and start farming.

KINYANGI: Then any infrastructure we develop can supply water to these communities. That's a very difficult thing to do because it means people changing their entire way of life.