ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 9月2日 00時19分

photo by @randyolson | words by @neilshea13 — Our pilot refused to wander into Ethiopian airspace. He worried. I never understood how he knew where it began, or who, hidden in the reeds below, might notice. But he was French, and like St. Exupery had made a science of superstition. He checked no maps, made no calls, simply banked left along a line in his mind, offering this sunset view. Good enough, no? he said. Here the Omo River spills out of Ethiopia and loses itself in Kenya’s Lake Turkana. The Daasanach, people of the delta, belong to neither country entirely and range over the border and down the water-road without thinking much of nations. For a long time it’s been theirs, this land that isn’t land, where fish breed, where silt settles, where government isn’t. Far upriver, the Ethiopians have built an enormous dam on the Omo, and nearer the border they are digging plantations on the riverbank for sugar and cotton. These are thirsty projects, and in time they could severely diminish the river and destroy the lake. Already friends upstream say the Omo is falling, but on this evening it was hard to imagine disaster. The lake turned silver in the last light, then platinum, and the reeds dissolved into stubbled chaos. A pair of dugout canoes slipped southward, and on a patch of high ground a bull nosed through a derelict fishing camp, a white bird riding his shoulders. Randy sat in back, shooting through the open door, while the Frenchman and I peered forward, searching vainly for hippos. I pressed him on borders, identities. Where does one notion end, and another begin? He shook his head and turned into the sun. How should I know? he said. Blame the British. They made this country!

These Instagram pieces are part of our ongoing project, #NGwatershedstories, and they’re linked to our feature on Kenya’s Lake Turkana in the August issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine. Join us @randyolson and @neilshea13 as we follow water down the desert.

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