UNU Update The newsletter of United Nations University and its international network of affiliated institutes |
Issue 8: April – May 2001 |
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UNU/INWEH |
During the 14-month project, UNU / INWEH, in partnership with the National Water Research Institute of Canada, will provide essential scientific equipment, establish operating protocols and procedures, and conduct on-the-job training of Ugandan field staff to sustain a long-term programme, managed and funded locally. The
programme will involve measurements of meteorology, lake physics, water
quality and suspended sediments. Field training for Ugandan staff will
include deployment, recovery and refurbishment of field equipment and
electronic data downloading, servicing and troubleshooting. Employing funds from the Global Environment Facility, the initiative is a collaborative effort with the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project, created to help address Lake Victoria's environmental deterioration. The lake has experienced extreme eutrophication, resulting in large, frequent algal blooms, oxygen problems, fish kills and infestations of water hyacinth. These changes seriously threaten the freshwater fishery (the world’s largest) and other agricultural, domestic and industrial uses of the lake. For more information, contact UNU/INWEH. |
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