Will Battle of the Nile Be Fought On the Beaches of Entebbe?

Lake Victoria’s water levels are at their lowest in 80 years. Uganda, which relies for nearly all its electricity on the Nile River as it flows out of Lake Victoria in Jinja, is a country that will soon be plunged in darkness.

..”The ecological health of Lake Victoria has been affected profoundly as a result of a rapidly growing population, clearance of natural vegetation along the shores, a booming fish-export industry, the disappearance of several fish species native to the lake, prolific growth of algae, and dumping of untreated effluent by several industries. Much of the damage is vast and irreversible.” In 1997, as the water hyacinth laid siege to Victoria, a UN briefing noted: “Lake Victoria today is on the verge of ‘ecological collapse’- and scientists say the vast inland sea is dying.”

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