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The mega dam in Jinja was meant to give Uganda energy independence, but this was constrained by Britain’s agricultural interests in Egypt.
The flooding has affected water resources, agriculture and food security, health and sanitation, fisheries, and energy and infrastructure.
Lake Victoria’s past is key to understanding its future.
With proper regulation, Lake Victoria’s fisheries could increase production without damaging wild stocks or the environment.
Wetlands are disappearing rapidly - but new data and technologies are revolutionising our knowledge.
The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
Urgent measures need to be adopted to prevent corruption linked to illegal fishing activity in and around Lake Victoria.
Information about the threats facing Lake Victoria and how they’re perceived are crucial to reverse the damage that’s been done.
The dispute between Uganda and Kenya over an islet half the size of a football pitch has been fuelled by the perceived imbalance in fish harvests and the prospects of oil reserves beneath.
Social ties between Lake Victoria’s fisherfolk are critical for gaining access to credit, employment, maintaining reliable and skilled labour and access to markets.
Lake Tana in Ethiopia has been massively affected by the invasive weed, water hyacinth. Control methods are available but there are challenges.
Climate change, deforestation, overfishing and hydrocarbon exploitation threatens one of Africa’s oldest lake’s, Lake Tanganyika.
Top contributors
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Professor of Environment and Development, University of Birmingham
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Principal Researcher, CGIAR System Organization
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University Distinguished Professor Joint Professor, Geosciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
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Researcher, University of California, Irvine
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Lecturer in international law, University of Iowa
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Senior Lecturer, University of Rwanda
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Head of Political Science Department, College of Law and Politics, University of Human Development, Iraq
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Senior Researcher – Remote Sensing & GIS, International Water Management Institute
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Professor and Director of Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
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Lecturer and Aquatic scientist, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
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Assistant Professor, University of Houston
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Lecturer, University of Nairobi
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Professor, Weber State University
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Biological Control at Rhodes University and Biological Control and Freshwater Alien Invasive Species Management, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
