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| Biodiversity |
| Environmental Edu. |
| Fishing Practices |
| Geogr. Info. Syst. |
| Pollution |
| Sedimentation |
| Socio-economics |
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| Legal Convention |
| Strat. Action Prog. |
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| Reg. Co-ordination |
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| Nyanza Course |
| Uvira Renovations |
| World Environ. Day |
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The People
The population of the catchment area of Lake Tanganyika is estimated to be 7 to 10 million and is growing rapidly. The majority of the people living in the catchment rely on small-scale agriculture and fisheries for their food and income. Industrial activity and associated pollution in the catchment are apparently localised and still at a low level due to the largely undevel- oped nature of the basin. Local people value the lake for several reasons: as a source of fish, a highway, a supply of drinking and washing water and as a receptacle for effluent. As such, many recognise the lake as essential to their overall survival.
Unfortunately traditional attitudes and responses to land and water resource management as well as practices of waste disposal,
are no longer sustainable because they cannot keep pace with the rapid increase in human population density. Communications and provision of utilities around the lake are generally poor. These drawbacks mean that any central government decisions on use of the lake basin will be very difficult to implement at lakeside localities.
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