In Kenya’s Nakuru Rift Valley, the lakes are drying up: Nakuru, Naivasha, Baringo, Solai, Bogoria, Turkana, and Elementaita are rapidly wasting away, leaving cracked lakebed deserts. In only six years, Lake Naivasha has receded to the point that fishermen have dug long channels in the lakebed to reach the now-distant shore. 2002 Lake Naivasha, 14 February 2002. Photo: Martin Trauth. Original upload date: 2006-08-05, original uploader was Berliner Tino at de.wikipedia. Wikimedia Commons   2009 This is not a river, but the channel dug in the bed of Lake Naivasha, Kenya's second largest supply of freshwater so that hopeful boat owners can still ply their trade to tourists and fishermen can reach the deeper waters of the crater. This is the lowest the lake has been probably in the last two hundred years, going back to Maasai anecdotes of the lake being dry around then. The hippo population is suffering and the birds are struggling to find fish. gowander.com