Uganda has been taking more water than agreed from Lake Victoria to generate power, accounting for half of the drop in the lake's levels, a report says.
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Analysts have warned of conflict, as East African nations compete for water.
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Mr Kull, a hydrologist who has worked with the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Nairobi, says that in the past two years, Uganda has been taking 55% more water from Lake Victoria than it is supposed to under a colonial-era agreement.
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"Today's lake levels would be around 45 centimetres higher," if Uganda had stuck to its agreed water use, he wrote in a report for the California-based environmental lobby group, International Rivers Network, which has been cited in the New Scientist journal.
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