Enugu community risks epidemic outbreak over river pollution, group decries
4 years agoTwo workers from the Ruzizi I hydroelectric plant take an inspection tour of the Ruzizi River to see the level of plastic waste around the dam of the plant in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 17, 2022. - At the southern end of Lake Kivu bordered by green hills, a compact layer of plastic waste is constantly forming, to the point of blocking the turbines of the largest hydroelectric power station in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ruzizi dam attracts the thousands of bottles, cans and other rubbish thrown into the lake like a magnet, which stretches for some 90 km on the border between the DRC and Rwanda. (Photo by Guerchom NDEBO / AFP)
Network of Water Rights Initiative (NEWARI) has raised the alarm over imminent epidemic in Numeh Community, Nkanu East Council, Enugu State, as a result of contamination of Nvuna River, the community’s only source of potable water, by wastes from an ethanol firm.