{UAH} Daniel: Mwanga's lake and Mr. Okurut?

Daniel,

Thanks for sharing, brother. I see you have coped the message to Dr.Tom Okurut, does he know our Simon Okurut Peter? Are they related in any way. We are still worried about Simon. We don't where he is. 

Thanks

Abbey

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On 24 Oct 2013, at 23:48, BD_wanika <bwanika@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Kabaka Mwanga's Lake wetland almost gone – Government not at home

Mwanga's Lake is on the threshold. It is heavily polluted with latrine and waste matter that comes from the neighboring residential facilities and the slum. One hostel on the western part of the lake is releasing its waste direct into the Lake. A new development has sprung up on the eastern side. They first dug a trench to release storm water direct into the lake.

Hopefully this will not turn out to be sewerage system for the property.

Washing bays in the surrounding area are not making matters better. The wash and release waste water into the lake. Children though innocent as they are, from the surrounding Ndebba slum are cooling off into this highly contaminated water body.

Neither NEMA nor Rubaga division is visibly around. The government went to England in 1962.

Long Live independent Uganda Long Live the Revolutionary Africa politician.

I doubt if the lake will be around much longer. It is heavily sedimented with all types of garbage; polythene bags, mud, and waste matter. The major two water springs that bring clean water into the lake is under Pastor Kayanja's Miracle Center Church. Indeed it will be Kayanja's miracle, if the lake survives without these springs, in the next five years or so. Another major spring appears to be disappearing St. Lawrence buildings.

The wetland that filters water into the lake has been reducing into almost a quarter of its original- with miracle center church taking 2/4 of it and the rest encroached on by St. Lawrence University. One does not need to have Geomorphometrics to understand,  the immensity of the disaster in the making.   

Just yesterday, the wetland was further fenced off by major forces. A loader into the night pushed soil further into the wetland extending a mugaga's property. Even the environmental police could not act despite the fact that there is a police just less than 100 meters away.

The catastrophe that is befalling this wonderful creation will rebound, as far as Luwero which does actually consume water from Mayaja  Lubigi river.  I have said and ret me repeat it – Kampala has no fresh water resources as early as ten years from n ow.

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Daniel Bwanika

www.idrc-ug.com

http://www.siup.ac.ug/wordpress/

 

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