Forgotten stories: Rift Valley's risen lakes

Mwalimu-G

Mwalimu-G

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What happened with this disaster story as we went back to politics, our daily staple?

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Mwalimu-G said:
Scientists attributed the rising to geological factors rather than river inflows. In any case elders said the last such rising was in the 1920s.
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Aha.
What caught my eye is the public infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals etc) now under water.
Years ago when a close relative worked as a GoK engineer under MoPW he used to regale me with tales of how, when designing roads and bridges for instance, they'd seek out the oldest wazees in the surroundings and ask them to describe the largest flood/ torrential rain season they'd ever seen in their life. They'd then build infrastructure to comfortably handle that.
Sasa mimi nashangaa, when did we depart from this cardinal tenet? :confused:
 
Here's that Bujumbura story.


www.africanews.com

Burundi: Floods from rising Lake Tanganyika affect 8000 families | Africanews

Recent flooding from the rising waters of Lake Tanganyika at Bujumbura port in Burundi has affected 8,000 families with around 2000 people displaced.
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africafreedomnetwork.com

Burundi: Thousands Affected by Rising Lake Waters - Africa Freedom Network

Some 8,000 families have been impacted by floods provoked by the rising waters of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura, Burundi's biggest city.
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Luther12 said:
Aha.
What caught my eye is the public infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals etc) now under water.
Years ago when a close relative worked as a GoK engineer under MoPW he used to regale me with tales of how, when designing roads and bridges for instance, they'd seek out the oldest wazees in the surroundings and ask them to describe the largest flood/ torrential rain season they'd ever seen in their life. They'd then build infrastructure to comfortably handle that.
Sasa mimi nashangaa, when did we depart from this cardinal tenet? :confused:
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Ile hoteli ilikunywa maji, mwenyewe analilia nani?
 
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