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A TASK FORCE LAUNCHED TO FIND WAYS TO PROTECT THE GREAT RUAHA RIVER

Makamu wa Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan (kushoto) akisalimiana na Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Mufindi William Jamhuri jana ambapo alizindua Kikosi Kazi kitakacho fanya kazi kwa siku 30 na kuleta mapendekezo jinsi ya kunusuru kukauka kwa mto Ruaha Mkuu. 






By Friday Simbaya, Iringa

The Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania (VP), Samia Hassan has yesterday (Tuesday) launched a Task Force that is going to work for 30 days and make recommendations for how to rescue Great Ruaha River. 

Mama Samia said it is the responsibility of every Tanzanian to ensure that they protect the river which dries is for 169 days after rain season stopped that is equivalent to more than five months.

Ecosystem of the Great Ruaha River Basin contributes 20% of GDP and more than 6 million people depend on the presence of the ecosystem of the Great Ruaha River for livelihoods. 

The launch took place in Iringa region attended by regional commissioners of Iringa and Njombe regions and various ministers including Prof Jumanne Maghembe, Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Eng. Grayson Lwenge Minister of Water and Irrigation, and Eng. Charles Tizeba Minister of Agriculture and Livestock.

Others were also the chief of Government institutions, MPs, Regional administrative secretaries, district commissioners from Iringa, Mufindi, Kilolo and Mpwapwa.

Meanwhile, WWF-Ruaha Water Program is in the process of developing advocacy strategy for Great Ruaha Catchment and has hired a consultant to support in the process, and for the time being the consultant is collecting information from multiple stakeholders. 

The one day consultative stakeholder meeting was organized in Dodoma for the purpose of discussing and getting views from targeted stakeholders and develops the first advocacy strategy document.

WWF Tanzania Country Office (TCO) has identified three river sub-basins as priority areas for its 5-year (2015-2020) country Strategic Plan; these are the Great Ruaha, Kilombero as well as Mara rive sub-basins.

The conservationists have sounded the alarm over increased environmental threats facing the Mara River basin.

They have warned that the river will soon disappear if nothing is done fast. The Mara basin is a trans-boundary resource shared by Kenya and Tanzania. It covers an area of 13,500 square kilometres, with 65 per cent of it being located in Kenya.

The WWF in their freshwater conservation goal said
by 2020, environmental flows are restored to, or maintained at, target levels in Great Ruaha, Mara and Kilombero rivers contributing to water security for men, women and wildlife dependent on those flows.

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