that. there wasn t always as much rubbish and then around the pongo river that s what locals say but the problem has become worse and worse the garbage now blocks the flow of the river and pollutes the water. to clean it up these days everyone pitches in with locals from fort portal and western uganda coming together once a month to collect garbage as head of a local conservation group guns e successfully raised awareness of the problem. to start with he had to contend with a lot of reluctance. to do the problem. we didn t. even. realize the management is still a problem in football of. we have all
intact. and c.t. trainers drop him off. the family subsists on what nature provides the government buys up copra or dried coconut meat that yields have been sinking year after year. rising water temperatures and sea levels also have an effect on marine life now when rubio is father goes fishing he often only brings home seaweed. everything is changing we re catching fewer a fish regardless of which car and other sea life is also disappearing and on land we have erosion water from the well is growing salty and the coconut palms produce very few coconuts nowadays. armored
this is a collection. of many of the deltas of the world the deltas are the land surface where the rivers water has brought the sediments to the coastline and accumulated in these large deposits we know that in the last thirty or so years sea level has been going up around three millimeters per year three millimeters per year is quite small. and so yes in the long term you know fifty years one hundred years you want to make sure you re sure lines are protected by closely studying deltas researches uncovered an unexpected phenomenon we would put instruments in the rivers we would put instruments in the coastal ocean we would be monitoring how the channels shifted around and all the sediments we found that the tide gauges suggested that the deltas were saying on average four times faster then the other areas and so we