More bad news for Lake Victoria

[Rusty_Shackleford]

The World's Largest Tropical Lake Turns Toxic Green, and Scientists Fear Its Recovery May Be Impossible https://share.google/vD5Sa9iv2jO66c0kB

 

[plebian]

You mean, "More bad news for planet Earth". It's going to get worse pretty much everywhere.

 

[Archerfish]

That is awful. But there is hope. In 1970, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and that paved the way to save Lake Erie which was considered dead. In the 1960's, the river flowing into Lake Erie caught fire twice from the pollution. The EPA in cooperation with the Canadian Government saved the Great Lakes. Although the lakes are not perfect, much progress has been made. Check out this story. It gives hope.

Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes

After decades of abuse, they are getting cleaner "Lake Erie is a dead lake. Save the rest of the Great Lakes." So went the environmentalists' plaint during the 1960s. Lake Erie was...

time.com

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

That is awful. But there is hope. In 1970, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and that paved the way to save Lake Erie which was considered dead. In the 1960's, the river flowing into Lake Erie caught fire twice from the pollution. The EPA in cooperation with the Canadian Government saved the Great Lakes. Although the lakes are not perfect, much progress has been made. Check out this story. It gives hope.

Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes

After decades of abuse, they are getting cleaner "Lake Erie is a dead lake. Save the rest of the Great Lakes." So went the environmentalists' plaint during the 1960s. Lake Erie was...

time.com

I would temper that optimism with the fact there is a vast difference between the richest, most industrilized nation in the world and Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, who don't have the resources or funding to pull it off.