Africa’s water bodies have been drying up rapidly. The United Nations Water Africa-predicts that by 2025, at least 230 million Africans will be facing water scarcity, while those living in water-stressed areas will be close to 460 million. Africa’s second largest crocodile habitat, Lake Kamnarok in Kenya has dried up completely. This oxbow lake was home to at least 10, 000 white crocodiles and many of these carcasses now sadly lay on the scorched cracked lake floor, while some crocodiles have been moved to private dams. The Bill-Gates funded climate alarmists have all viciously blamed climate change, while neglecting all other systemic and hidden factors affecting this. Climate change has played a part to some extent, but not to the degree that the alarmists are trying to make us believe. The climate will always keep on changing especially in Africa. However, questions being posed should not be shunned away by ‘experts’ calling us ‘climate deniers’. One of our research questions was: Africa has the lowest Greenhouse Gas Emissions, then why is the continent paying so harshly for the ‘pollution sins’ of others? What else could be going on? Here is the hidden truth.
Bill Gates and the World Bank on Africa’s Water Reforms.
In 2016, Bill Gates spoke at a World Bank meeting, about international development’s need for tools such as seeds, vaccines and digital technologies. He explained why the adoption of best practices around tax, healthcare and agriculture would enhance development’s technical expertise. He also advised on the use of ‘expertise conditionality’ .This would closely resemble the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) that were part of ‘aid conditionality’ that the multilateral lenders were criticized for imposing on developing economies hindering much of their economic progress.
In 2018 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation(BMGF) and the World Bank Group committed to work together to ‘unlock at least $1billion in investments in innovative sanitation solutions, for people living around the world without sanitation services’.
In March 2022, The World Bank and the World Water Council met for the 9th World Water Forum in Dakar Senegal. According to the World Bank, the Forum had four priorities: 1) Water security and sanitation; 2) cooperation; 3) water for rural development; 4) means and tools for implementation of reforms in water and sanitation. African water rights activists against this Forum disclosed that the World Bank proposed the privatization of Africa’s water through public-private partnerships.
In November 2022, Bill Gates travelled to Africa and invested $7 billion for development to African countries over the next four years.
On March 8th, 2023 the new World Bank President Ajay Banga visited Kenya and there were talks to increase the loan for the potential budget support to $1billion this fiscal year. A recent World Bank report shows that Kenya’s government has to meet a package of reforms in order to unlock the additional financing needed for the country to meet its water and sanitation goals. The goals listed on Kenya’s national development plan are geared toward the provision of basic water and sanitation for all Kenyans by 2030.
On March 13th, 2023 The U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new investment of more than $100 million in new Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activities.
The World Bank has called for an increase in collection rates meaning that the costs were passed on to Kenyans who have to pay more for their water and sewer bills. State-backed water firms will increase tariffs to meet 150 percent of the operating costs.
Coincidentally, Kenya’s president William Ruto has increased taxation for all including proposing a ‘pollution tax’ for motorists to help ‘fight climate change’. Also the World Bank called for a reduction in free water, and this has seen the country embark on an attempt to privatize water and sewage services through public-private partnerships. This has seen an excessive and accelerated building of dams and irrigation schemes to help address ‘food and water security’.
Dams are choking the Rivers and Lakes dry in Kenya.
The building of dams has been a sore subject in Kenya. These massive projects have been great opportunities for greedy and corrupt politicians in government to siphon funds, and the stalled projects have cost the taxpayers their money and their water. Many African countries including Kenya lack regulations and legislation that would enable proper thorough assessment of the impacts of these projects.
One of the hidden reason for the drying of the large-crocodile habitat was the presence of private dams that had been constructed upstream. Dams and reservoirs alter and disrupt the natural flow of rivers and have significant ecological impacts downstream. They also lead to loss of biodiversity of ecosystems, loss of critical river habitats and blocking migration routes for fish and other aquatic species that rely on free flowing rivers to spawn. In addition, dams pollute water as stagnant water in reservoirs lead to algae and pollute the quality of water that flows downstream. They trap sediment and siltation causing erosion of riverbanks and destruction of valuable habitats for aquatic animals.
Irrigation schemes and hydropower plants have been known to deplete groundwater and reduce water levels in the rivers from excessive pumping. Dams reduce the amount of water that infiltrates into the ground thus less groundwater recharge. Establishing these projects near rivers that are major sources of water for neighboring communities has created water shortages. Also, evaporation of water from the dam reservoirs contribute to drying up of water bodies downstream, due to the increased surface area of water exposed to the sun.
Kenya has been moving towards renewable sources of ‘green energy’ including hydro and geothermal power. Most of these projects also impact the environment by degrading and disrupting the natural ebb and flow of rivers and lakes. One of the companies that has entered the Kenyan market to provide ‘green energy’ is Australia’s Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) owned by Fortescue Metals Group.
Bill Gates and Fortescue Metals Group
The Chairman and founder of Fortescue Metals Group Andrew Forrest invested $US50 million in the Bill Gates Breakthrough Energy Ventures capital fund for emerging carbon-cutting technologies globally. Coincidentally, the European Union committed to invest EUR1.8Million in potential ‘green hydrogen projects’ in Kenya on the same day. Another coincidence is the timing of this investment for Fortescue Metals Group because a recent survey revealed that Kenya has hundreds of precious metals and minerals.
During Bill Gates’ visit to Kenya, he met with the newly elected Kenyan president Ruto and other leaders, and stressed on the importance of improved agriculture. President Ruto had already announced that he had lifted the existing ban on genetically modified organisms that had been in place in the country. Thereupon, Bill Gates spoke to Kenyans about the benefits of adopting genetically modified seeds such as drought-resistant maize and better fertilizers to ensure ‘food security’.
Coincidentally, Kenya has just signed a deal with Fortescue Metals Group to develop a green fertilizer production plant and a 300 MW geothermal-powered facility. This green hydrogen and green ammonia plant was to be established at OlKaria Geothermal field in Naivasha Kenya.
Bill Gates invested in hydropanels installed in Africa.
Hydropanels are a ‘sustainable water technology that uses the power of the sun to extract an endless volume of clean, reliable drinking water from the air’. Basically, they make water out of thin air. Bill Gates and Blackrock invested in SOURCE® Global’s hydropanels that are already installed in at least 52 countries. Kenya is one of those countries. SOURCE® Global (formerly known as Zero Mass Water) installed 40 solar-powered hydropanels in Samburu Kenya that produce 400 liters of water a day.
Bill Gates invested in the Janicki Omni Processor (JOP).
Disclaimer: For people with a queasy stomach, skip this section, you might find it really gross.
The JOP is a machine that takes human waste and turns it into drinking water, electricity and ash. When Bill Gates visited Janicki Bioenergy and engineering firm, he ‘drank clean water from feces’. He also announced that this technology would help the Gates Foundation’s effort to improve sanitation in poor countries. The JOP is already in use in Dakar Senegal, as part of a pilot project.
Gates mentioned that this technology would benefit poor countries, where people use latrines that are not properly drained due to poor sanitation that cause diseases. He also claimed that the next version of this technology ‘will burn most types of garbage in addition to human waste’. Coincidentally, Kenya’s president just announced his plan of introducing technology that converts garbage into electricity very soon.
Bill Gates' Other Investments in Water.
Bill Gates became Ecolab’s largest shareholder. Ecolab has various offices in Africa offering water treatment, hygiene and infection prevention solutions. In addition, he acquired a minority stake in Heineken Holding NV which announced the ‘Every Drop’ water ambition for 2030 through the Heineken Foundation that has been undertaking ‘water-balancing’ programs in water-stressed areas around the world.
Bill Gates' investments in Sanitation.
The Gates Foundation has invested US$200 million in continued research to ‘reinvent the toilet’ because many children have been dying from diseases like cholera.
Bill Gates' Investment in ‘fighting cholera’.
One of our other articles mentioned the Bill Gates Haiti cholera outbreak scandal. The European Parliament was demanding written answers after Professor Piarroux, a world expert on cholera, discovered that Bill Gates owned cholera vaccines in South Korea. The Gates Foundation had organized mass vaccination campaigns in Haiti just to gain support and create a market for the cholera vaccine without clarifying that cholera had disappeared in Haiti two years earlier.
The World Health Organization (largely funded by BMGF) only has one available vaccine for mass vaccination, Euvichol® that was funded by BMGF. This vaccine is supplied by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (funded by BMGF). The other vaccine that was recommended by WHO was discontinued.
There have been recent reports of cholera outbreaks in Africa that were eerily similar to the outbreak in Haiti. This has seen a fervent push for mass cholera vaccination with Kenya launching another 10-day mass vaccination campaign.
Bill Gates and Cloud Seeding and Geoengineering
Bill Gates has been funding ‘solar geoengineering’ claiming that it could help stop global warming! This is the same Gates that wants to ‘dim/block our sun’! Afribundance supports global climate policy specialist Dr. Okereke’s position that Africa is not your (Gates or Soros’) giant climate laboratory.
Cloud seeding is the deliberate weather modification technique that introduces various substances (condensation or ice nuclei) into clouds to attempt to induce precipitation. The process of increasing the amount of precipitation discharged from a cloud results in rainmaking. Some of the substances used include silver iodide, or frozen carbon dioxide as well as calcium chloride. According to Britannica, Geoengineering is the large-scale manipulation of a specific process central to controlling Earth’s climate.
Afribundance chose to investigate the recent deadly floods and cyclones including the devastating cyclone Freddy that wreaked havoc in many African countries. Cyclone Freddy was the ‘longest-lived ‘tropical cyclone ever, and as much as the media outlets tried to blame ‘climate change’ we interviewed six government officials (in three African Countries) that begged to differ. Meteorological Departments and weather agencies in those and other African countries refused to be interviewed on this by Afribundance, and we wondered what they were hiding! They claimed that all reports are being given through ‘official media’.
In 2011, Kenya’s government resulted to cloud seeding spending more than $11 million to help fight the drought that was termed the ‘worst in decades’. Now fast forward to 2022/2023, NASA claimed that the Horn of Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia) was experiencing the longest and most severe drought on record!! This is the same Kenya that owns an aquifer that would provide water for at least seven decades if explored. We discuss that later in this article.
So if cloud seeding did not help mitigate drought, could it have been responsible for subsequent ‘worsening droughts’? We are looking for these answers. So maybe climate Change is not the culprit here, but the manipulation of the weather and climate could hold the key to this manufactured ‘water scarcity’.
International organizations are carrying out cloud seeding experiments in various countries in Africa. Could this be the reason for the increase in droughts, flooding and Cyclones, that are being wrongly attributed to ‘climate change’?
Climate change is not to blame for Kenya’s food and water scarcity.
Some media outlets have attributed the increase in violence and conflict to the drought caused by climate change in Kenya. That is not true. Our research found that the bandit attacks, cattle rustling and displacement of people are all politically motivated. Politicians in government are arming the bandits and cattle rustlers to evoke fear in residents so as to displace them and grab their land.
Construction of dams, reservoirs and renewable energy projects has seen thousands of families displaced by the government with the promise of relocation and compensation. These project-affected persons (PAPs) were all displaced and never compensated. These families were asked not to farm their land and these fertile arable farms have not been in use for at least 7 years causing food shortage in the region. These PAPs were not relocated, compensated or given the land promised, meaning that the government stole their land. Also, they suffered losses from not farming like they would normally do, and this has also contributed to the food shortages in the country. The farmers fear that they have been reduced to squatters because they saw the same government, take back land and revoke title deeds that had been offered to other inhabitants near an irrigation scheme in Galana Kulalu. Ironically, Kenya’s government has offered an Italian energy firm Eni Spa 300,000 acres of land for production of biofuels.
Increased banditry and insecurity has seen all the irrigation schemes in Kerio valley abandoned. Also, we found that the government was intending to use the arable land from the dry rivers for expanding ‘green’ income generating projects to earn revenues from the global carbon market.
Kenya’s Turkana Aquifer Can Solve Kenya’s Water Scarcity.
Kenya has the Lotikipi aquifer in Turkana that would meet Kenya’s water needs for 70 years. Poor planning and misappropriation of funds deemed this project economically ‘unviable’. Ironically, Turkana is one of the driest regions in Kenya, yet sitting on 250 billion cubic meters of water. If all these donors and international organizations that want to ‘provide water for all’ would start by exploring this, then Kenya’s water and food scarcity would be resolved once and for all. Saudi investors and contractors were willing to help with the project, but the government and ‘other international actors thought that it was too costly at the time’.Why then don’t they want to pursue this solution?
Grabbing Africa Rivers' Water Rights
Privatization of Africa’s water including rivers and lakes will allow private investors to bet on this scarce resource, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions of Africans. The displacement of Africans by governments will see the grabbing of the land and water rights associated with the land. Hedge funds in the United States and around the world have been investing exclusively in companies that ensure water supply and quality. Many of these hedge funds make profits from droughts and look at water as a resource that in the United States is a ‘trillion-dollar market opportunity.
Could the irrigation systems being installed in Kenya be a way to grab the Tana River Water Rights? Our research shows that this is a high possibility. A very high probability.
Conclusion
Why is it that Bill Gates vehemently wants us to believe that climate change is the cause of food and water insecurity in Africa? Why are the climate alarmists funded by Bill Gates so eager to hide all other pertinent factors germane to the artificial drying of Africa’s water bodies? Also, if you are ‘cloud seeding’ my rain and ‘dimming’ my sun and then blaming climate change, then I have every right and reason to blame you for ‘changing my weather/climate’!
Author: Njeri Karanja-Robinson.
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