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2008
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Execution of the Kibale-Bukora eco-system Restoration plan 2007, Rakai District.
it requires heavy investment to make it suitable for eco-systems in these fragile areas. Execution of the action
domestic use. As such, the lake water is mainly used for plan was undertaken in 2007, and within a period of just
livestock while the population prefer water from rivers, one year, impressive recovery has been realised especially
wetlands, shallow wells and bore holes, but these are not with respect to aquatic vegetation and water levels which
adequately available, leading to water shortage problems. have improved significantly.
Recent trends indicate continued shrinkage of the size
of the lake, and numerous islands formerly non-existent Many people who have been to and still live on the shores
are emerging, attributed to silting and reduction in the of Lake Kijanebarola complain that the water causes
lake level. It is predicted that if this trend continues their bodies to itch, when they bath it. The lake waters
unchecked, and due to the eminent threats of climate have developed a blue-greenish weed in powder form
change, the river flow may be demised and lakes dried, that is drawn in water from the lake for domestic use.
leading to a water crisis. The presence of this weed encourages accumulation of
bacterial communities, which in turn leads to depletion
A further and new dimension of environmental change of oxygen in the water body. This may be what underlies
is being experienced in the river valley and Lake the local belief that Lake Kijanebarola has no fish and its
Kijanebarola. Due to land degradation and productivity water causes itching to the body when used for bathing.
decline on land flanking the river, people have turned The situation is made worse by the high rate of fungal
to the river banks and dry river beds, encroached on infection in the district and the entire region. Unguided
them and reclaimed them for crop cultivation, taking cultivation, reclamation of wetlands, river banks and lake
advantage of the relatively still fertile soils due to silt shores, bush burning has resulted into the bare hills of
eroded from the hills and deposited in these valleys. The Kooki and “eutrophication” of lakes, and the attendant
magnitude of the problem became so high that, in 2001 effects on human well-being.
government embarked on the development of a strategy
and action plan to restore the degraded wetlands, river To the local communities, the blame is being directed to
banks and lake shores in the area, by removing farmers those people in positions of responsibility who have not
and facilitating recovery of both vegetation and water made any serious efforts to halt these trends.
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