Water

The water hyacinth in Lake Victoria spread to 1,441 more hectares within four days, according to satellite images released by a State agency yesterday. The images by the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) showed the area covered by the weed increased from 6,142 hectares on February 11 to 7,583 hectares on February 15. This is […]

Bakari Ang’ela There are fears that harsh weather conditions in Turkana County could aggravate the food shortage crisis with concerns pupils will drop out of school. More pupils are going hungry after organisations that used to supplement government’s school feeding programmes, suspended their help over delayed funding. The County education quality and standard assurance officer Mr. […]

New Vision February 05, 2019 Kaswa is a small village along river Muzizi, 285 kilometers west of Kampala, just at the border of Kagadi and Kyenjojo districts. Up to 17 hectares of this village sit on a site that will, in the next three years, be a power dam. Villagers on this portion of the […]

The Niles November 13, 2018 The River Nile has been used for millennia as a means of transporting people and goods, preceding even Ancient Egyptian civilisation. Today it serves as both a transport route and an attraction for locals and tourists alike. Up until the 19th century and the arrival of the steam engine, it […]

Water Journalists Africa After her city suffered a record drought, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille says what befell the oldest city in South Africa should serve as a warning to vulnerable cities across the African continent. “There is no room to make mistakes,” stresses Patricia as she spoke in an interview with Water Journalists […]

Lake Tana, the source of Blue Nile ranks the largest lake in Ethiopia. But it’s contaminated. Its pollution is attributed to surface and underground discharge of wastes; degradation of its wetlands; siltation; upstream river damming; excessive withdrawal of its water for various purposes and introduction of invasive alien species into the lake. And Dr. Ayalew […]

Mudfish traders have no option but to increase prices of this delicious species of fish due to its scarcity. For over 10 years, Amos Kamwesiga has been deriving a livelihood from mudfish. Nyakiraguju swamp on the outskirts of Buteraniro Town along in Mbarara district along Kampala-Kigali highway in South Western Uganda has been his ‘gold […]

Patrick Kossima, Unyanja FM Radio The constant harassment of fishermen by authorities in a beach village next to Lake Nyasa could be a contributing factor to the lack of adequate sanitary facilities in the area. Chiulu village is located about 7km south east of Nyasa District Headquarters. People here engage in a number of income […]

Unyanja FM Radio Patrick Kossima, Unyanja FM Radio For a long time, Lundo, a village of over 1800 people in Nyasa District, mainland Tanzania has grappled with the constant challenge of access to clean and safe drinking water, something which has greatly contributed to outbreaks of dysentery and cholera. Such was the situation between November […]

Prosper Kwigize Prosper Kwigize Even though Tanzania is one of East Africa’s natural resource-rich countries, some of her people continue to use such natural resources as lakes, rivers and the ocean in an unsustainable manner thereby  threatening their very existence. In the recent past for example, the country has witnessed the drying and disappearance of […]

Prosper Kwigize Proper Kwigize Lake Tanganyika caters for the water needs of more than 50 million people in four countries including Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. However, recent data shows that the depth of this Lake – which is located west of Tanzania, north of Zambia and east of both the […]

Isaiah Esipisu By Isaiah Esipisu (Thomson Reuters Foundation) | 2 July 2018 UKUNDA – The sparkling seas that lap the miles of sand along Diani beach have made this corner of southeastern Kenya one of the country’s main tourist attractions. Yet few visitors would know that all the water in their taps comes from boreholes sunk into […]