Where the Grazing and Water Are

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Livestock return trek to water · August 2026

August 2026 bulletin — conditions have moved since

Forage ward by ward, how far the trek to water has become, where herds were moving and what the bulletin recorded about safety on those routes — from the latest NDMA county drought bulletin.

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Area	Forage	What the bulletin said
Burat	Poor	Among the three wards with the worst vegetation condition, poor pasture, and one of the two wards where browse was also poor.
Cherab	Poor	Among the three worst wards on the vegetation index, but local herders were using forage on the Ewaso Nyiro River floodplain.
Garbatulla	Poor	Significant portions of the rangeland reported poor pasture after inadequate rainfall. Herders were crossing from here towards Chari in search of forage.
Oldonyiro	Poor	Among the three wards with the worst vegetation condition on the satellite index, with poor pasture after weak rainfall and some of the county's few poor patches of browse.
Chari	Not reported	Not graded in the August bulletin, but named as the ward herders from Kinna, Kulamawe and Garbatulla were moving towards, which means arriving stock as well as whatever forage is there.
Kinna	Not reported	Not graded in the August bulletin. Some herders here moved to areas with fewer tsetse flies, and others crossed towards Chari.
Kulamawe	Not reported	Not graded in the August bulletin; herders from here were crossing towards Chari.

Source	Share of households	Notes
Boreholes	29%	The joint-largest source for domestic water in August.
Piped water (homestead and community points)	29%	Most households in Garbatulla, Kinna, Merti, Bisan Biliqo and Isiolo town.
Rivers	24%	Down on the month. Flow in the Ewaso Nyiro and the Isiolo declined gradually through August.
Shallow wells	9%	—
Traditional river wells	9%	At Modogashe in Sericho ward, vendors were charging about Ksh 20 for a 20-litre jerrycan.
Water pans and dams	0%	Most water pans had reportedly dried up by the end of August.

Where the Grazing and Water Are

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How far to water in August 2026

Grazing, area by area

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Where herds were moving in August 2026

Safety on the grazing routes, as reported in August 2026