Talk:Lake Victoria

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[edit] Useful picture

Lake Victoria on a NASA MODIS satellite picture. Borders between Uganda (North-west), Kenya (North-east) and Tanzania (South) are marked by grey dotted lines.

I uploaded a cropped NASA satellite picture of Lake Victoria; it may be useful despite the few clouds hanging over it. I don't have enough time to find a nice place for it in the article so I'm parking it here. — mark ✎ 14:01, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hydroelectricity, water level falling

The reason, says the report, is to maintain sufficient flows of water over the dam's turbines and keep the lights on in Uganda.

"The resultant over-release of water... is contributing to the severe drop in water level in Lake Victoria," says the report, written by Daniel Kull, a hydrological engineer based in Nairobi, for International Rivers Network, a US green group.

The Owens Fall hydroelectric project dates back to 1954.

Until then, the lake spilled out over a natural rock weir, to form the Victoria Nile, which eventually becomes the White Nile.

Britain, Uganda's colonial power, blasted out the weir and replaced it with the first dam, now called the Nalubaale dam, thus effectively transforming Lake Victoria into a vast hydroelectric reservoir.

Maybe someone can build on this? Ksenon 19:20, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] size?

I read in World book it is 26,828 sq miles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.206.165.12 (talk) 03:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC).