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The Wei Wei Irrigation scheme is located in Sigor, West Pokot District, 510 km north of Nairobi,
in Kenya, East Africa.
The foothills and plains of the Wei Wei location are
situated in the South-Eastern part of the District, where the
Wei Wei River runs through the area from South to North-East
originating from the Cherangani Hills. |
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The
project has been one of the seven recipients of the
UNEP's 1999 Saving the Drylands Certificate Award
at the Third Conference of Parties to the Convention to
Combat Desertification COP3-CCD held in Recife, Brazil,
22-25, November 1999. The project has been considered as
a "Success Story in Land Degradation/Desertification
Control" |
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