The Rising Lakes; Flooding Nile

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The lakes been rising since 1960s and no strategy. What is this nonsense of deforestation has to do with this? Yet rains have increased.
Bigger capacity dams in Kenya, Ethiopia needed. That Cairo bluff Agreement needs to be thrown away.

Lake Nakuru 2013

Lake Nakuru 2020

move over says Lake Naivasha

Lake Baringo 2020

Baringo to meet Bogoria?

Lake Victoria

Sudan Floods

[RV Pundit]

We need to dam those rivers...and use it for irrigation..and supply it in town.

[KenyanPlato]

The theory of the rise of these lakes i saw on stst paper is that the tectonic shifts are happening slowly and frequent.

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

The theory of the rise of these lakes i saw on stst paper is that the tectonic shifts are happening slowly and frequent.

Not true! The rise of water levels in lakes and rivers mostly has to do with bare soil and the malfunctioning water cycle that results from it.

In seasonally arid or brittle environments -- which cover two-thirds of the earth's land area -- soil cover is essential to the biodiversity (including biomass) and complexity that is needed for the soil to gain and store water, which is a basic necessity for all life.

Healthy soils essentially act like sponges that hold in rainwater and store it for plants. If the soil is bare or mostly bare then ANY rain that falls invariably becomes a flood. You see that increasingly around the world. People think it is climate change, but it isn't.

Record rainfall is usually cited as a cause of severe flooding in recent years. What if the land, the soil of a large watershed were to decrease, in its content of organic matter and cover of plant material, by 1 or 2 percent? What would this mean to the severity and frequency of floods and droughts?

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

We need to dam those rivers...and use it for irrigation..and supply it in town.

That is temporary relief. Dams eventually silt over because of all the soil erosion happening on the arable land that washes over.