Pollution

With the ever growing population our earth is experiencing, pollution is becoming a greater problem.  Well the same holds true for the waters of Lake Victoria.  The lake is currently suffering from severe pollution which can be attributed to the increase in its surrounding population.  The main source was found to be the dumping of raw sewage directly into  the lake.  Along with raw sewage traditional waste and fertilizers and chemicals from the farmland.  By dumping this waste into the lake there is an ongoing contamination which threatens the ability of the lake to provide clean drinking water and harvest the life that the fisherman so greatly depend on.  The image below shows the change in pollution from 1960 to the projected status in 2015.  The blue area is clean water and the color change indicated the effects of pollution.  The red areas are most affected and greatly effect the environment.

All information retrieved from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/africa_lake_pollution/img/1.jpg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Victoria & http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Density_evolution_Victoria.png/800px-Density_evolution_Victoria.png