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during the same period grew by 49.2 per cent (Lake Victoria Basin Commission 2007).

tea processors. In Uganda, investment is taking place in various sectors of the economy including mining and agriculture (coffee, tea, fish, milk, edible oils and fruit processing) (Lake Victoria Basin Commission 2007). The major urban centres – Kampala, Entebbe, Masaka and Jinja in Uganda, Mwanza and Musoma in Tanzania, and Kisumu in Kenya –are the key point sources of pollution. In Rwanda, the manufacturing industries are concentrated in Kigali, which are also point sources of pollution. The industries in the Gikondo Valley in Kigali City are a source of chemical pollution for the Nyabarongo River that feeds the River Akagera. Most of the industrial facilities in the LVB have inadequate waste treatment facilities. Therefore, wastewater is discharged into storm water drains, which then finds its way, in some cases via wetlands, into the Lake. Those facilities that do have wastewater treatment plants are generally inefficient (Lake Victoria Basin Commission 2007).

In Burundi, industrial activities are dominated by agro-processing and food industries: coffee, cotton, rice, tobacco, sugarcane, dairy products, oil mills and breweries. Other important industrial activities relate to the production of consumer goods, chemicals, textiles, wood, paper and building materials. About 70 per cent of goods are transported by road, which connect Burundi to Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya and the principal transport corridor, which joins Burundi to Tanzania (Lake Victoria Basin Commission 2007). In Tanzania, industrial activities in the Lake region are characterized by small or medium-sized production units based mainly on agriculture and fishing. These include fish processors, fishmeal mills, abattoirs, vegetable oil mills, animal feed mills, and coffee and

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