Embobut

Embobut (Embobit, Embotut) is one of the administrative wards for the Marakwet East Constituency in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya.^: 4–6 The area contains one of two major drainage basins for Elgeyo-Marakwet County, referred to locally as a "water towers". The other water tower in Elgeyo-Marakwet County is Cherangani Hills. Embobut supplies Eldoret town and its environs with water.^: 4–6 Collectively the Embobut and Cherangani Hills water towers also supply water to the Kerio River, which flows through the Cheploch Gorge in Baringo to Lake Turkana via the Turkwel Gorge.^: 12

The Embobut Forest is one of the largest continuous blocks of indigenous forest still remaining in East Africa.^: 11 As of 6 November 1954, it was gazetted and registered as a protected public forest, by Proclamation Order 26.^: 32–33 Soil erosion and landslides are ongoing concerns, as are protection of the water supply and biodiversity, impacts on climate, and local livelihoods.^: 11

The water towers store rainwater, enable regular river flows, recharge ground-water storage, improve soil fertility, reduce erosion and sediment in river water, and host a diverse species of plants and animals.

— Delegation of the European Union to Kenya, 2018