Surface water reservoir attesting to the impact of climate change in Nigeria.

The rural community  of Busugi ,Niger state, Nigeria  is already feeling the impacts of climate change in their day to day activities .Their only source of water  (the village earthen dam for  rain water storage) during dry season is now drying up faster than before, with obvious  shrinkages  and prolong  soil crusting  noticed around the dam. below are some of the pictures affirming the impacts.

Pictures captured on May11,2013 during a community based  adaptation study  on the impacts of climate  change by Adenle Ademola and other WASCAL Scholars. A study  sponsored by West Africa science Service on Climate Change  and Adapted Land use (WASCAL), ZEF Bonn,Germany .