![]() ![]() The team identified three major anthropogenic factors: In 2020, with support from the Cooperation in International Water in Africa (CIWA), a multi-sector team led by the World Bank Water Global Practice, set out to identify the key drivers of continued degradation of this precious transboundary lake. Key drivers of water quality deterioration Lake Victoria is shared by three riparian countries: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, with Rwanda and Burundi being part of the upper watershed draining into the lake. ![]() That is the promise and potential of the largest of the African Great Lakes – Lake Victoria. Yet, if protected, this body of water has the potential to serve as an economic powerhouse – capable of creating green jobs, supporting subsistence and market economies, and securing the future of major population centers several hundred kilometers away. The unabated degradation of a single water body can spell great misfortune for millions of people living in a region already weighed down by climate change, fragility, population growth, and poverty. ![]()
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