Lake Victoria beset by environmental problems
July 2, 2008
Kisumu, Kenya - Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater lake in Africa, is shrinking, dropping some six feet in the last four years. Over 30 million people in three East African nations depend on the lake’s water for their livelihoods and biologists fear that if the overdraw from the lake doesn’t decrease, Victoria could surfer from serious ecological problems.
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Source : San Fransico Chronicle
Circle of Blue recently profiled another dying lake in Africa: Lake Chad.
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