An Evaluation of the Law Relating to the Management of Water-related Disasters With Specific Reference to Droughts and Floods in Kenya

Abstract

Droughts and floods are both natural and man made catastrophes that have pervaded human lives even before the beginning of the recorded history. These two calamities have been common events throughout the world and beyond all doubt, they have affected human living conditions and sustainable socio-economic development". Occurrences of droughts and floods have lead to destruction of property and loss of lives as people get displaced from their hornes-'. However the most perplexing and bizarre thing about these calamities that have adverse impacts on humanity and environment is that, in most cases they normally occur in sequence, so that after heavy floods what follows is a very severe drought resulting into a vicious cycle of loss of lives and destruction of property.