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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (5344)	5/12/2010 11:02:47 AM
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Droughts Turn Out the Lights in Hydro-Dependent African Nation (3 pages) By MICHAEL BURNHAM AND NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of Greenwire Published: May 10, 2010 NAIROBI, Kenya -- The restaurant manager shrugs as his customers eat in darkness and his kitchen limps along on half power. "What they told us in the newspaper last week was that one section of the city would have a blackout for maintenance purposes, but right now the whole city is down," said Nicholas Kyalo, whose restaurant, Garit, serves fast food in the capital's downtown core. At lunchtime most of the city's electricity is down for the second time in a week. Garit's cooks stand idly as they wait their turn on the only working fryer, and other staffers scramble to start emergency generators before food spoils in the refrigerator. Blackouts are a regular occurrence in this city and throughout Africa, and the problem is getting worse. Shop owners can be seen dragging out diesel generators and firing them up in the streets. Restaurants have gotten so used to blackouts that they design their menus around them nytimes.com