Uganda’s dilemma of competing goals
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | The Boston Globe
Uganda “…is blessed with incredibly fertile land and Africa’s most developed certified organic farming operations, according to the United Nations. Ordinary roadsides teem with wildlife. But Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake that is shared by Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, is dramatically degraded and drying up. Water levels have dropped over 6 feet. The population near the lake has mushroomed to 30 million, the most dense development by rural people in the world. Wetlands around the capital of Kampala are almost completely wiped out. Hydroelectric dams, human sewage, and agricultural run-off, not to mention fights between the three countries for falling fish stocks, have many people alarmed….”…BS
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