Sunday, January 11, 2015

Join Petition: "National Environment Management Authority Kenya, National Environment Management Authority Uganda, National Environment Management Council Tanzania: Invoke the laws and policies to deter car washing in Lake Victoria"

Join the East Africa Sustainability Watch petition to put pressure on NEMA (Uganda), NEMA (Kenya), the National Environment Management Council (Tanzania), the Lake Victoria Basin Commission, city and town authorities as well as other Local authorities around Lake Victoria to make a difference for the health of our heritage by acting on those that are abusing the established laws and policies! Your support will make a real difference to the health of the 30 million dependants to day as well as future generations to come as well as the restoring the deteriorating environmental situation of this transboundary Lake

The petition "National Environment Management Authority Kenya, National Environment Management Authority Uganda, National Environment Management Council Tanzania: Invoke the laws and policies to deter car washing in Lake Victoria" needs your help to get it off the ground.

Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link:

Here's why it's important:
Car washing in Lake Victoria is unsightly in many towns and cities like Kampala, Kisumu and Mwanza. This illegal activity goes on unabated despite the presence of institutions, policies and laws that ought to deter it. This has resulted in release of waste water that affect water quality, fish breeding, and contributes to eutrophication of our water bodies. This MUST change in 2015.

Despite several threats (for example in 2012, NEMA Kenya barred car washing in the Lake), the seemingly small sclae practice is cummulatively going on unabated, threatening livelihoods (pollution of water supply, destruction of fish breeding sites, destruction of wetlands among others)

You can sign the petition by clicking here.