The Uganda Atlas

Flooding in Nsooba Lubigi drainage channel. Houses and a school are submerged in the water in 2007.

Floods at Kyambogo junction: construction of industries in wetlands which are drainage channels interferes with the flow of water causing constant flooding at this junction. Traffic is blocked for hours in many cases.

Dumping of solid waste in Nakivubo channel is choking the Nakivubo wetland. Nakivubo channel cleans waste water from Kampala before it is discharged into Lake Victoria. This wetland is under threat due to cultivation of yams and illegal settlements.

The Kaawa Boat, one of the main transport vessels between Uganda and Tanzania docks at Port-Bell in Luzira. The water is currently infested with an algae bloom and a smelly stench hovers over the area. The main cause is pollution of Lake Victoria waters by pollutants from Nakivubo Channel.

These buildings were constructed in wetlands which are the water ways for drainage into Lake Victoria. The houses were flooded in 2007 temporarily interfering with traffic and business along the Kampala-Entebbe highyway.

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