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Daaba's singing wells

22 March, 2011 - 17:09 GMT
Woman washes up in a plastic bowl in Daaba village Kenya

In Daaba Village, Isiolo County in Kenya, the community organised itself to source water from wells they dug deep in the ground.

The wells are about 15 feet deep and to extract the water, the villagers pass buckets upwards along a human chain.

A community organisation in Daaba built them in 2000.

This system helps provide large numbers of people and their cattle with fresh water without them having to travel 70 km to Ewaso River for water as they did before the wells.

BBC's Ken Mungai prepared this report, voiced by Tim Haynes.

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