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Article: ENVIRONMENT-KENYA: NAIROBI'S GROWTH IS ERODING THE EARTH.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- September 24, 2008
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By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep. 23, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Massive urbanization -- Nairobi has grown from 1.3 million people in 1989 to over 4 million today -- has taken its toll on the city's environment.
William Wambuga, director of the Botanic Gardens, a project of Nature Kenya, a non-profit organization working to create public awareness about biodiversity, told IPS that when the Fisheries Department had plans to set up fish farms along the Nairobi River in 1996, laboratory analyses of water samples revealed increasing levels of pollution and led to cancellation of the project.
It was not always so.
At its source in the hills of ...