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East Africa’s water resources drying up as a result of climate change

drought1Climate change killing East Africa’s water resources, UN warns, Daily Nation OCTOBER 20 2016 BY KEVIN J. KELLEY

One of East Africa’s (EA) most important sources of water is drying up due to the impact of climate change on Mt Kilimanjaro, the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) warned on Wednesday.

In Summary

  • Populations and property near Mount Elgon on the Kenya-Uganda border are also being threatened by the impact of climate change, Unep said in a report on the status of mountain environments in East Africa.
  • The Kenyan and Ugandan governments are further urged to “harmonise their environmental policies because, at the moment, they are scattered, disjointed and sometimes contradictory and are therefore failing to address climate change and mitigation issues, particularly in mountain areas.”
  • Unep’s 97-page report explains that Kilimanjaro’s forests feed Tanzania’s Pangani River, and this vital resource for much of East Africa is threatened by an increasing number of wildfires on the mountain……..http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Climate-change-killing-water-resources/1056-3423570-uj0mob/

October 21, 2016 - Posted by | AFRICA, climate change

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