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The water hyacinth is a devastating weed found in water bodies, including rivers and lakes. It doubles in six to 15 days, and for decades; it has been reducing oxygen levels and killing the aquatic life in Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the world.
The purchase of a weed harvester worth Sh81 million brought hope that the weed would be eradicated from Lake Victoria, but little has come out of it.
The weed harvester was funded by the government and the World Bank in 2016, and was handed over to the Lake Victoria Environment Management Project II (LVEMP). It remained idle until the government commissioned it to the Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA) last January. Still it has not been fully used for lack of funding.
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