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Posted Sat Jan 31 2009: from Abu Dhabi National:
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"The lake doesn't have a future"
Lake Victoria, spanning 68,800 square kilometres and three countries – Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda – is home to more than 30 million people, a population that depends on this body of water, even as they choke the life out of it.
Godfrey Ogonda, an environmental scientist with the Friends of Lake Victoria, describes the assault on the lake as an "integrated" problem. It sounds innocuous enough until he explains that deforestation upstream is speeding soil erosion and washing excessive nutrients into the lake; unplanned settlements are pouring untreated human waste into the mix; overfishing is chronic; climate change is reducing rainfall and raising temperatures; and invasive species are attacking the weakened ecosystem... Named in 1858 after Queen Victoria, the largest tropical lake in the world is the reservoir of the mighty Nile river and it is close to joining the ranks of dying lakes.
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Very Scary Tags: water issues, stupid humans, overpopulation, invasive species
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Canuck says: "Lose this lake, lose millions of lives. Its ecosystem is already dealing with invasive Tilapia. Sorry, nothing quippy about this one."
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'Doc Jim says:
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Perhaps it's time to re-name it Lake Failuria.
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