Melting down of ice on Mount Kilimanjaro
Parliament was on Wednesday introduced to a new concept on the relationship between decreasing water levels in Lakes Victoria and Nyasa and the melting down of ice on Mount Kilimanjaro, which are geographically far apart.
Making his contribution in the House, Philemon Ndesamburo, (Moshi Urban, Chadema) said that the low water level in Lake Victoria was due to the decreasing level of ice on Mount Kilimanjaro.
?Honourable Speaker Sir, recent research on the three geographical features has shown that ice on Mount Kilimanjaro contributes to water levels in Lake Victoria.?
He said: ?At the moment, the amount of ice on Mount Kilimanjaro is also decreasing thus it will be important to first protect it, which is the source of water in Lake Victoria,? said Ndesamburo.
Ndesamburo would not go deeper to explain the unhidden relationship, but only said in a phone interview that he remembered to have read the research findings by one Prof Thompson of the US on the relationship.
He said that the low-level of water in the two water bodies would bring big effects to the people living in the areas around them because it would create shortage of fish and other species.
Mount Kilimanjaro is on the north eastern part of the country, while Lake Victoria is in the north western part; Lake Nyasa is in the southern part.
MPs have advised the government to take quick measures to ensure that water levels in the two lakes remained reasonably high.
The legislators were discussing a report on the Implementation of the Infrastructures Committee?s Activities in 2006, which was read in Parliament by Mohamed Missanga (Singida North, CCM), its chairman.
In the report, Missanga said the government was in the process of opening talks with neighbouring countries which use the waters of the two lakes to ensure that the levels remained high as there were signs that they were decreasing.
Concerning the problem of poor roads in the rural areas, Jacob Shibility (Misungwi, CCM) said that there was a need for the infrastructures committee to visit the rural areas and determine the real situation.
He said roads in the rural areas were so bad that people were experiencing difficulties in transporting their commodities to the markets.
Mgama Msindayi (Iramba East, CCM) said that the government should work hard to control overspeeding drivers in order to avoid/reduce road accidents which have become very common nowadays.
He said that there was a need for the government to change the working stations for traffic officers because some of them had been working in same stations for a long time.
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