Water shortage is the biggest problem in Northern Kenya, it is not uncommon for people to walk two days to get to a water source. Apart from relieving hardships among the communities, our water projects have proven to be extremely effective in implementing our conservation approach. Area's that do not have water projects rely on hand dug wells in the sand. These are shared with the wildlife which leads to human-wildlife conflict - elephants destroy the wells on a daily basis and livestock become easily predated. Our water projects have separate outlets for humans, livestock and wildlife. This reduces spread of disease as well as eliminating human-wildlife conflict. 

Water projects are not simply 'handed out'. Communities that have proved their ability to co-exisist with wildlife and preserve the surrounding habitat receive priority on projects. Additionally water projects can lead to population increases in some area's - the Milgis is careful to implement projects in locations that are able to handle population fluctuations.  Our strategy is to place projects outside of area's that host endangered species with the aim of reducing population stresses in that area providing the wildlife with less densely populated habitats.