The first-ever conference to offer short and long-term mitigation to the state of River Nile, which has seen part of its banks being degraded and its water polluted, has been scheduled.
Mr Ernest Nabihamba, the Jinja City Natural Resources Officer, said bathing in River Nile has become hazardous due to Bilharzia-carrying snails, adding that the Nile is currently being plagued by wetland degradation, pollution (industrial waste…
