The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu on Friday said the proposed Inter-Basin Water Transfer from Congo River into the Lake Chad was possible, expensive and would require more consultations.
"We are taking water from the Congo Basin and transferring it to another 400km into Chad. It is technically feasible," Mr Adamu explained. “But it is very expensive."
A new study led by scientists from the University of Exeter in UK shows efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease are being thwarted by dogs eating fish that carry the parasite’s larvae. Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) causes temporary or permanent disability, debilitating pain and trauma in the poorest of the world’s population with no access to safe drinking water. The researchers tracked hundreds of dogs with GPS satellite tags to analyze their spatial ecology and uncovered their diets using forensic stable isotope analysis of dog whiskers, in several of the worst-affected villages along the River Chari in Chad.
Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research shows. Guinea worm disease is usually caught