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