Dar, Nairobi, discuss Mara River water use | |
| MUGINI JACOB in Musoma Daily News; Monday,August 13, 2007 @00:04 | |
| SENIOR government officials from Tanzania and Kenya have met to lay out strategies geared at ensuring that Mara River basin water resources are properly utilised for the benefit of the two countries. The officials, mainly drawn from the ministries of water and agriculture, met here last week for the two days’ meeting organised by Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme (NELSAP) that is implementing Mara River Basin project in Kenya and Tanzania. The officials, who are also members of the Mara River Basin project steering committee, underscored the need by the two East African Community (EAC) partner states to utilise the basin’s water resources equitably and share it for the benefit of their people. The regional project steering committee chairman, Mr Fred Mwango, described the river that runs through Masai Mara Game Reserve on the Kenya side and the world famous Serengeti National Park as the common heritage that the two countries were blessed with. Full Story |
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