So it is May and there is wide scale floods in Beledweyne and the surrounding region.
This happens twice every year the same with the droughts and some years with famine as well.
But these problems can be easily solved. So they don't occur.
The rains arrive on the Ethiopian Highlands and it flows downstream to Somalia.
This is precious freshwater. Yet it is not harvested it and simply disappears into the salty sea of the Indian Ocean.
Any normal country would have built dams, reservoirs for drinking water, a network of irrigation canals to serve agriculture.
You need engineers (civil & mechanical) and water specialists to build this. You would spend money on training a cadre of students yet tens of millions is wasted on importing qat from Ethiopia & Kenya.
God gave Somalia everything but he forgot to give Somalis a brain.
This happens twice every year the same with the droughts and some years with famine as well.
But these problems can be easily solved. So they don't occur.
The rains arrive on the Ethiopian Highlands and it flows downstream to Somalia.
This is precious freshwater. Yet it is not harvested it and simply disappears into the salty sea of the Indian Ocean.
Any normal country would have built dams, reservoirs for drinking water, a network of irrigation canals to serve agriculture.
You need engineers (civil & mechanical) and water specialists to build this. You would spend money on training a cadre of students yet tens of millions is wasted on importing qat from Ethiopia & Kenya.
God gave Somalia everything but he forgot to give Somalis a brain.
