{UAH} Difficult to Transfer People from Wetlands Lands Ministry?!!!

I have just heard from a news bulletin that the Ministry of Lands will find it difficult to remove people from the wetlands in Kampala.

One or the other way, people will have to vacate the wetlands either by natural forces or simple logic.

For those who do not understand it go to Ggaba, Luzira or Garuga and Entebbe to see what wetland encroachment has caused just in the 30s years of NRM ignorance!

Water is now a soup of toxic algae. People will also have to vacate areas around all City streams and river systems. 

River Mayanja is polluted as far a Ndejje and Bombo barracks get and draw water from this river!

Why should we act very quickly?

 

1. Lake Victoria heavy pollution is directly linked to the wetland encroachment- I can't see how Lake Victoria will be cleaned in the immediate future for we do not have the technology and we do not innovate!
2. Health cost: Wetlands with topical torrential rainfall, which is not going to end soon, implies the people will lose enormously. All structures in wetland are sinking into clay over time – the wetland will be logged with filthy water and human excrement  and future removal of increasing number of structures from the wetlands will be an enormous cost than it is today. Bwaise - Nalukologo Natete is an example.
   
3. Kampala water problem is being exacerbated - I have mentioned that Kampala from last year should start counting. In less than 15 years Kampala will have no drinking water or the cost will be so high extracting it from heavily polluted Lake Victoria, purifying it and delivering it to the city dwellers
4. There is huge social economic cost not doing anything about the heavy Lake Victoria pollution – thousands of people survive on lake Victoria marine ecology for their livehood. Fishing and other activities

 

Moreover all hotels and residences in the 200 meter radius of the lake have to be removed! There is no alternative if there is any, why is Europe with better technological innovation and funding reclaiming wetlands destroyed 3 centuries ago?

 

Bwanika

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Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero