EU helps in new River Nile project KAMPALA, Uganda - Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) are coming up with new monitoring system centre which will help to monitor the quality and quantity of waters in the longest river in Africa. NBI manages the waters and other projects on the river. NBI executive Director Teferra Beyene told a news conference in Kampala loast week, the new effort is being done with European Union help. These include developing an advanced satellite monitoring system which will enable them to monitor the fate of the river. especially monitoring ther river. “The quality and quantity of water in the river is becoming big challenge. We cannot monitor the two effectively. That is why NBI in collaboration with the European Union we are coming up with this system which will help to monitor the quality and quantity of water across the river Nile from its source to the end points in Egypt” he said. He said due to the increasing human activities near the river and lakes banks which feed into the water it has become highly contaminated by both industrial wastes andsilted soils. He also highlighted countries like Egypt which he blamed for pumping huge volume of water for irrigation projects in the desert regions where many Egyptian grow food crops and also the upper countries (Riparian countries) Uganda Kenya Tanzania for not protecting the river from industrial pollutants. which ends up into the water stream thus affecting the Quality of River Nile waters River Nile is source of livelihood for 11 countries that entirely depends on the river for its power generation, irrigation and water for domestic consumption. The 11 NBI members are Rwanda , Burundi , Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo Sudan Southern Sudan Ethiopia Egypt Uganda and Eritrea as an observer. SOURCE: busiweek/index1.php?Ctp=2&pI=636&pLv=3&srI=68&spI=107&cI=10
Posted on: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:46:06 +0000
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