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A Stubborn Weed: Water hyacinth is conquering Lake Victoria

19 March 2018
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David Owino

Kenya Correspondent

Africa News
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Duncan Lukoye

Video Journalist and Editor

Zulani TV
Topic Invasive plant species.
Country Kenya.

Water hyacinth, a free-floating aquatic weed, continues to conquer hectares and hectares of water surface in Lake Victoria. Today, over 40 sq. kilometers within Kenyan territorial waters alone is under a thick mat of water hyacinth. The result of this invasion is an ecological disaster with far reaching socio-economic impacts.

East African governments are making effort to eradicate the weed, but time is running out on the world’s second largest freshwater ecosystem. Whatever they do, a nature-based solution is inevitable.

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