Access to clean drinking water is a perennial problem in the arid and semi-arid areas of northern Kenya. In Turkana UNICEF estimated in June 2000 that only 33% of the rural population had access to safe drinking water and 26% to sanitation. Water is vital not only for the population to drink but also for the survival of their animals. The semi-nomadic peoples of Turkana rely on goats, camels and cattle for their livelihood. For those people surviving on agriculture water is needed to irrigate the land. We seek to maximize the benefit from these projects by providing water both for drinking and to allow communities to grow crops, and cultivate small plots (shamba). New Ways supports projects to build rock-catchment dams and shallow wells, drill bore-holes and provide wind-pumps