Reply #11: kenya is creating water problems for itself by diverting it to

[elehhhhna]

MASSIVE flower farms that have sprung up there. It's an ongoing nightmare--the farms attract desperate poor people who need work...there aren't enough (crappy low-low-low-pay, btw) jobs available, afd thus the poaching of fish & game for cash & sustanence is now approaching epidemic proportions.

If you knew the real cost of those dozen roses, you'd never buy them. More info here in the August issue of Vanity Fair.

Excerpt:

A FLOWERING EVIL

Last January, acclaimed naturalist and wildlife filmmaker Joan Root was gunned down with an AK-47 in her bedroom. Four men have been charged with attempted robbery, but some friends and neighbors in Kenya's "Happy Valley" believe it was a contract killing. Traveling to ecologically endangered Lake Naivasha, Mark Seal learns how an impassioned crusade may have made Root some mortal enemies.