Africa’s Largest fresh water body Deteriorating

Lake Victoria, the largest fresh water body and second largest in the world has been experiencing high population densities that exert a lot of pressure on the natural resource of the lake basin causing land degradation. More than 60/ of the lake basin surfers from loss of land cover, increasing soil erosion, declining soil fertility and ago-chemical pollution.

This form of degradation has the immediate impact of increasing sediment and natural loading of the lake through genial deposition surface run off.
Water pollution from untreated waste and storm water also contributes to eutrophication of the lake.
The current wide algal blooms and aquatic weeds witnessed in some closed bays are some of the characteristics of eutrophication.

The ongoing urbanization taking place in Uganda, cultivation, papyrus harvesting and sand mining should create even more fear because of their immediate down size of affecting important habitants
With the continued unchecked activities on lake Victoria and in the absence of well coordinated regionally supported actions towards livelihood enhancement, the water body cannot sustainably continue to provide the ecosystem services that it has been known for since 1858

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