ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING IN LAKE VICTORIA - OSIL The Kenyan Government (Meteorological Department and Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (Kemfri)) contacted OSIL with regard to a unique problem they were encountering. Lake Victoria suffers from extensive blankets of Water Hyacinth at various times of the year. The water based plant is not native to Africa having been imported from South America into Rwanda during the 1980’s, and grows in thick blankets across the lake making access very difficult if not even impossible. The weed poses such a great threat to lakeside economy, as Lake Victoria is home to Africa’s largest inland fishery. Water hyacinth interferes with water supply (including irrigation) and treatment, and has previously blocked the intakes at a hydro electric plan

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