Pale Water

This is a campaign tracking the impacts of Plastic Water pollution around lakes Edward, George, Albert, & Kyoga by @mugira, Bertha Challenge Fellow.

[Iradukunda Espoir @iradespoir]

Plastic is one of the most useful materials around, its use has created a ballooning heap of plastic waste,+350M t generated each year🥤

Viz of th largest contributors of mismanaged plastic waste in 2019.

Details 👉 https://t.co/BOQsMHR7Im @PaleWaterUg @H2Ojournalists

[Tushabe Andrew @tush_andre]

A @PaleWaterUg #photoexhibition of plastic waste accumulation on the shores of Africa's Rift Valley lakes today in Mbarara City

@Mugira interested the photo admirers in the lifelong consequence of plastic polluted water in their lives

#PaleWater
#BerthaChallenge

[Tushabe Andrew @tush_andre]

A year long investigation of effects of plastic wastes in Africa's Rift Valley lakes ended with a photo exhibition in Mbarara City today 23.12.2022.

Photos of @Mugira

#PaleWater
#BerthaChallenge
#BerthaFoundation

[Tushabe Andrew @tush_andre]

And after a couple of advices on marriage and children, my jolly, sweet soul @HazelKaliisa strolled through @PaleWaterUg's photo exhibition in Mbarara City.

Pale Water Uganda has had, this 2022, had an amazing campaign against plastics in water.

#PaleWater
#BerthaChallenge

[Tushabe Andrew @tush_andre]

I'm the not-so-cool Andre... He! Is the vibey Andre 👌🏾

Thank you @andrew_aijuka man for the gracing this @PaleWaterUg photo exhibition today. We will always need you in this long fight against water plastics.

Cc: @Mugira
#PaleWater
#BerthaChallenge

[water journalists @H2Ojournalists]

“Enough is enough; we have suffered enough. World leaders must walk the talk on Africa’s climate crisis.”Daphine Kansiime.
Interview by @AdellaMbabazi

Full video on our YOUTUBE Channel🔗https://t.co/aNlVAZq0IP
#ClimateChange
#Waterstories
#H2OChangesThings

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

Preparing for COP27: Ugandan youth climate activist, Daphine Kansiime @MissD84392770, tells world leaders to walk the talk on Africa’s climate crisis.

@AdellaMbabazi with full interview here 👉 https://t.co/5NYd2OO5Hy

Cc: @H2Ojournalists || @Mugira @abahumuza @RamaTED19

[Apes Reporting Project @apesstories]

We need them too👇
#Gorillas play a key role in maintaining the #biodiversity of their #forest homes by spreading the seeds of the trees they eat & by opening up gaps in the trees as they move around, letting in light and helping sun-loving #plants grow.
#SavingMountainGorilla

[#AdeNic Productions 🇺🇬 @AdellaMbabazi]

(VIDEO)

Young women out there own your voice, own yourself and own who you are - Daphine Kansiime @MissD84392770

Cc: @Mugira || @H2Ojournalists @PaleWaterUg

#DayOfTheGirl
#ClimateAction

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

R.Rwizi meanders through Mbarara City, inhabited by over 120,900 people, picking wastes, including plastics, on its journey from the mountainous district of Buhweju.
It drains into the wetlands leading to L.Victoria, the source of the Nile. 👉 https://t.co/TpOnPR5JEx

#PaleWater

[Speke Events 🇺🇬 @eddiespikaagaba]

Team @abahumuza Development Group today started on the post #SaveRiverRwiziMarathon22 activities of cleaning and restoring the only Mbarara’s Water body. Kudos team! ‘Our River, Our Responsibility’

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

Currently, Kiiza makes an average of 10 laundry baskets daily and sells each at 15,000 shillings (4 USD). He has also embarked on a skills-transfer program training youths on how to recycle plastic bottles.

More details here 👉 https://t.co/mtlDQOTAZg

#PaleWater

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

Plastic bottles continue to threaten our environment because leaders have not yet realized how waste can be managed properly - Samuel Kiiza.

He recycles used plastic bottles of soft drinkings into laundry baskets, garbage bins, flower pots, brooms, and pavers.

#PaleWater

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

Read about Plastic Pollution here: https://t.co/G1zQvaP6yZ

📹 @Mugira

Cc: @infoNILE @H2Ojournalists

#PaleWater
#EndPlasticPollution

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

Let us educate our children as early as possible to desist from plastics.

📷 @Mugira

Cc: @infoNILE || @H2Ojournalists

#EndPlasticPollution
#PaleWater

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

Just like other plastics, plastic slippers are buoyant. They can be trapped by the papyrus reeds & other plants in & around the lakes if they get off the nets. This compromises the water quality in such places, which are usually fish breeding & nursery areas.
#EndPlasticPollution

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

Water Hyacinth + Plastics are aggressively spreading across sections of River Rwizi in Mbarara.

#SaveRiverRwizi
#PaleWater
#EndPlasticPollution

📷 @AdellaMbabazi

Cc: @H2Ojournalists @infoNILE @Mugira @RamaTED19

[Ramadhan Kimbugwe @RamaTED19]

THANK you for giving in your whole to tell the River Rwizi story. The journey towards a restored River Rwizi is a multistakeholder responsibility. Together, we can gradually strike some sustainable wins.

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

This river serves as a water source for Mbarara city and neighboring areas.

📷@AdellaMbabazi

Cc: @Mugira @BaryahabweD @RamaTED19 @innoateenyi

#PaleWater
#EndPlasticPollution
#SaveRiverRwizi

[Pale Water @PaleWaterUg]

Journalists undergoing training on reporting about water pollution organized by Water Journalists Africa have visited River Rwizi in Mbarara, Uganda. River Rwizi is one of the water bodies in the country heavily polluted by plastic waste.

📷@AdellaMbabazi

#PaleWater