Daily Monitor
Saturday May 22 2021
Summary
Lake Katwe, one of the best salty Lakes in Africa, has a untapped potential surrounding its bi-products as current technologies reveal. From brine reserves that can produce edible table salt for local consumption, to potentially fueling the country’s hydrogen economy.
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Although there has been production of moderate quality salt for decades, development of the Ugandan salt mining industry has for long lagged behind following failed attempts of a salt factory that was corroded due lack of a pre-feasibility study on the chemical nature of the salt.
Lake Katwe, one of the best salty Lakes in Africa, has a untapped potential surrounding its bi-products as current technologies reveal. From brine reserves that can produce edible table salt for local consumption, to potentially fueling the country’s hydrogen economy.
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 28 2021
Salt miners sit beside their products, the salt rocks, as they wait for clients near Lake Katwe in Kasese District in 2017.
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Summary
The miners face eviction from the salt lake after the Energy ministry issued an exploration licence to Rwenzori Shining Star Ltd.
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Rajabu Juma, 76, is a resident of Katwe-Kabatoro Town Council in Kasese District, where he has lived all his life extracting salt from the salty Lake Katwe, adjacent to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
He owns 20 salt pans on the shores of Lake Katwe, where he earns a living and the business supports his family and dependents.