In addition, hydropower projects and irrigated sugar plantations in Ethiopia’s lower Omo River Valley threaten to “vastly” reduce water levels in the lake, which is the source of livelihood for 300,000 people. The water body may divide into two small pools, devastating fish stocks, it said.
“The combination of climate change, large-scale development, and population growth poses an urgent threat to the people of the Turkana region,” Joseph Amon, health and human rights director at Human Rights Watch, said in the report released before talks on climate change in Bonn, Germany, next week.
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