The Nyando Basin supplies mighty Lake Victoria with much of Kenya’s contribution to her volume. It covers an area of roughly 3,500 sq km in the west of Kenya, and traverses the provincial boundaries of Rift Valley and Nyanza. Those living in this region have been subjected to changing weather patterns since as long ago as 1961, just a year before Kenya’s independence, when they suffered dramatic and unprecedented flooding. Many people were displaced and had to be resettled. Things have never been the same since, and in recent years the frequency, intensity and irregularity of severe weather events have worsened considerably. The Nyando Basin suffers not only from flooding; it is also subjected to periods of drought. December to February would typically be the area’s dry period, but this year that spell extended from November all the way into April.

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These photographs expose some of the environmentally destructive processes that are under way in Maharashtra's Western Ghats, close to the Arabian Sea. These are often in the name of 'development', but seem to bring more benefits to vested interests (big business and corrupt politicians) while causing harm to both the people that live in these areas and their fragile ecosystems.

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