Uganda 'draining Lake Victoria' (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Uganda has been taking more water than agreed from Lake Victoria to generate power, accounting for half of the drop in the lake's levels, a report says.
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Analysts have warned of conflict, as East African nations compete for water.
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Mr Kull, a hydrologist who has worked with the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Nairobi, says that in the past two years, Uganda has been taking 55% more water from Lake Victoria than it is supposed to under a colonial-era agreement.
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"Today's lake levels would be around 45 centimetres higher," if Uganda had stuck to its agreed water use, he wrote in a report for the California-based environmental lobby group, International Rivers Network, which has been cited in the New Scientist journal.
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more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4696240.stm

Water...it's the next oil.

on edit: recommended read -- Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? (Paperback) by Sandra Postel
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[sasha031]

1. yes, after Iran, there will be water wars

it was Einstein who said " I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in WWIII but WWIV will be fought with stick and stones"

[sandnsea]

2. And we're still fighting over "gods"

Stupid stupid stupid humans.

[chelsea0011]

3. We wouldn't if you just understood that my god is the one and only

[izzie]

4. I am telling you we will be worse over the water

Look at the Western Rivers. Every one needs rice and celery (water crops) grown in the middle of dry lands from water from rivers needed for peoples and animals. We seem to be a little mad in some of the things we are doing. Like selling seeds to Iraq farmers that are good for one year and of course they can not save seeds as they do not work. New seeds must be bought each year. But money is more important than some good thinking.