In the future KARI will also collect data on: climatic change risks, household vulnerability to climatic change in specific regions/production systems, performance of various crop varieties under different climatic conditions. It has 17 hydro-meteorological automatic weather stations in the major water catchments for measuring surface discharge, used by the Kenya Energy Generating Company to monitor hydro-power generation under changing rainfall conditions. The NEMA Geographic Information System laboratory focuses on water quality-monitoring, which can be used as an indicator of climate change. These data cover e.g. gender, poverty, living conditions and occupation.