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Let it flow: Improving water quantity and quality in Tanzania’s Rufiji river basin

Water, essential to all life, plays a particularly important role in the lives of Tanzanians residing near the Mbarali River, part of the larger Rufiji River basin. Here, farmers use water from the river to irrigate their crops. Cattle herders guide their animals to its banks to drink and graze. Fishers make a living catching fish from its waters. Still others use it as a place to wash laundry or quench their thirst.

4940: Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the Protection of the Western Indian Ocean from Land-based Sources and Activities

26 okt. 2020

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