page_title: Lake Victoria
section_title: Pollution
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Victoria / Environmental issues / Pollution
caption_attribution_description: Asturianu: Medramientu de la densidá de población alredor del llagu Victoria. Беларуская: Рост шчыльнасці насельніцтва вакол азёры Вікторыя. বাংলা: ভিক্টোরিয়া হ্রদের চারপাশে ক্রমাগত ঘনত্বের বৃদ্ধি. Bosanski: Rast gustoće stanovništva oko jezera Victoria. Català: El llac Victòria, una zona densament poblada. Čeština: Postupný nárůst hustoty zalidnění v okolí. Dansk: Udvikling af bevoksningens tæthed rundt om Victoriasøen. Deutsch: Bevölkerungsdichte um den Victoriasee. English: Population density around Lake Victoria. Español: Crecimiento de la densidad de población alrededor del lago Victoria. Eesti: Rahvastiku tiheduse kasv Victoria järve ümber. Suomi: Väestöntiheyden kasvu Victoriajärven ympäristössä. Français&#160;: Le lac Victoria, un espace densément peuplé. Galego: Crecemento da densidade en torno ao lago Vitoria. עברית: הגידול בצפיפות האוכלוסין באזור אגם ויקטוריה. Fiji Hindi: Density growth around Lake Victoria. Italiano: Densità di crescita intorno al Lago Vittoria. 日本語: ヴィクトリア湖周辺の人口密度の推移. Latviešu: Apdzīvotības blīvuma izmaiņas ap Viktorijas ezeru. Македонски: Пораст на густината на населението околу езерото. Mirandés: Crecimiento populacional al redror de l Lhago Bitoria. Nederlands: bevolkingsdichtheid rondom het Victoriameer. Norsk nynorsk: Tettleiksvekst rundt Victoriasjøen. Norsk bokmål: Victoriasjøen har skaffet mat til millioner av mennesker. Voldsom tilflytting til områdene ved sjøen både i Uganda, Tanzania og Kenya, samt overfiske og annet har imildertid ødelagt ressursgrunnlaget. Kartene viser befolkningsveksten rundt Victoriasjøen siden 1960. Mørkere områder antyder flere mennesker. Português: Crescimento populacional ao redor do Lago Victoria. Runa Simi: Ñansa quchap kinraykunapi runakunap ñit'inakuynin. Română: Evoluţia densităţii populaţiei/km² în perioada 1960 - 2015. Русский: Рост плотности населения вокруг озера Виктория. Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Rast gustoće oko jezera Victoria. Simple English: Density growth around Lake Victoria. Seeltersk: Befoulkengsäntwikkelenge an dän Viktoriasee ätter dän Import fon dän Nilboars. Kiswahili: Density growth around Lake Victoria. Українська: Зростання чисельності населення на узбережжі озера Вікторія. 中文: 維多利亞湖周邊人口密度
context_page_description: Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.
  The lake was named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, in his reports—the first Briton to document it. Speke accomplished this in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton to locate the source of the Nile River. This expedition was financially sponsored by the Royal Geographic Society.
  With a surface area of approximately 59,947 square kilometres, Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth largest continental lake, containing about 2,424 cubic kilometres of water. Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa. The lake has a maximum depth of between 80 and 84 metres and an average depth of 40 metres. Its catchment area covers 169,858 square kilometres. The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 kilometres when digitized at the 1:25,000 level, with islands constituting 3.7 percent of this length. The lake's area is divided among three countries: Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
context_section_description: Pollution of Lake Victoria is mainly due to discharge of raw sewage into the lake, dumping of domestic and industrial waste, and fertiliser and chemicals from farms.
  The Lake Victoria basin while generally rural has many major centres of population. Its shores in particular are dotted with the key cities and towns, including Kisumu, Kisii, and Homa Bay in Kenya; Kampala, Jinja and Entebbe in Uganda; and Bukoba, Mwanza, and Musoma in Tanzania. These cities and towns also are home to many factories that discharge some chemicals directly into the lake or its influent rivers. Likewise, set up of small beaches and local authorities around the lake, lack proper sewage treatment facilities therefore allowing pollutants find their way into the water.  Large parts of these urban areas also discharge untreated (raw) sewage into the river, increasing its eutrophication that in turn is helping to increase the invasive water hyacinth. Increased logging and act of deforestation has led to environmental degradation around the region reducing the absorption of polluting chemicals and deteriorating the water quality.
caption: Population density around Lake Victoria
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