Shrinking of Lake Chad is threating livelihoods of people in the region and raises the need for improved strategies to manage the water resource to remedy losses, WaterAid has said.

Dr ChiChi Aniagolu-Okoye, Country Director, WaterAid, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.

“Lake Chad, the largest freshwater reservoir, is an important resource shared by Nigeria and other benefiting countries within the region.

“The lake sustains a lot of people, who are largely farmers, fishermen and livestock breeders.

“The speedy shrinking of the basin is threatening the resources and livelihoods of millions of people who are living there.

“There is no doubt that the management of the lake requires greater resources and expertise; involvement of water experts is certainly a welcome intervention,’’ she said.

The WaterAid official called for the involvement of water experts, particularly geologists, in proffering solutions to the diminishing of the lake.

According to her, the shrinking has caused millions of inhabitants of the basin to move to the hinterlands due to inability to carry out their fishing and other agricultural activities.

“Most of the people living around the lake have been displaced by natural forces.

“These forces include drought and desertification brought about by the effects of climate change; high winds and temperature in the region have resulted in diminishing resources of the Lake Chad Basin,’’ she said.

https://dailynaija.com/post/breaking-lake-chad-shrinks-see

FTC.

But seriously, global warming is evident. The goverments of Nigeria, Niger and Chad should come together to remedy the situation( like afforestation).

First to...

Na which network the guy above me they use


Send down the rain

Lol

Send down ⬇ the rain ☔!

I don't know what to say but let us blame Buhari

Too bad

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Rapture is near

OP,

Na today?

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dd

Dannieln1:
D

Jeezuzpick:
OP,

Na today?

D

living2013:
Rapture is near

yoyouyou:
E

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Denn:
Lol

taiyesoul:
Send down ⬇ the rain ☔!

seuncyber:
Ok

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May ur life never experience shrinking IJN

A sign that APC is about shrinking in 2019

Wow...that's bad

It's more like Disappeared not Shrink

I need fish

Na hunger make am shrink

person above ayam not understanding FTC and then what next

Lake Chad Bokoharam Mamman Nur Territory

Buhari

I'm suspecting that 10 years from the last photo, it is now officially gone

Solution4u0:
I need fish

Bokoharam go use you as fish there

Maybe they will have more chance to find the northern oyel there.

Sins and atrocities committed in the North has taken its toll on the innocent river basin.
Blame it on global warming and climate change

So the lake now have a soak away ���. This buhari govt

The governments of Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon needs to be blamed for that. They ought to have carried out a massive afforestation in that area. More rivers and lakes in that area will dry up soon.

Too much borehole in Nigeria is the cause.