The Urban Waste from the Nile Basin to the Mediterranean Basin as emblematic case.

• published: 14 May 2015
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Environmental Degradation is a serious challenge facing us. The Urban waste is a real challenge and threat facing our Nile Basin environmental integrity and sustainability. Should considerable magnitude of urban solid waste and sewerage stemming from residential loci and in general the urban waste finish in the Nile Basin, the livelihood of millions will be severely challenged and endangered. This is an example of the many small tributaries, which are literally flushing away litters, garbage and growing urban waste due to the connected urban sprawl and poor planning. This is part of the my research focus and from my field survey, I observed that the issue is serious in all over the territories I travelled to Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Egypt. And I assume that the case is similar in Burundi, Congo DR, Eritrea, and Tanzania. The Nile Basin Population in 2014 totaled 464,023,000 and projected to follow a doubling rate in most of the Nile Basin Riparian Territories, if not in all: Burundi (10,483,000), Democratic Republic of Congo (69,360,000), Egypt (83,387,000), Eritrea (6,536,000), Ethiopia (96,506,000), Kenya (45,546,000), Rwanda (12,100,000), South Sudan (11,739,000), Sudan (38,764,000), Uganda (38,845,000), and the United Republic of Tanzania (50,757,000), the magnitude of urban waste could be estimated in relation to the demography. The authorities have legislations in place, but there are challenges and constraints of implementation, follow-up, human capacities, poor institutional capacities, financial and technological constraints. The Policy of NOT on our Backyards (NOBs) could apply also to this huge case...NOT from the Nile on our Mediterranean. (NOMs) measures should be applied for major ownership of problems, partnership in problem solving, accountability and transparency for the benefit of the collectivity. The Nile Basin is luckily endowed with wonderful landscapes and fascinating nature and still human dimensioned assets and that should be guarded. Not all the people will afford to drink from Rwnenzori or Wechecha mountains. so people should safeguard their environment from the grass-root. MY