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Technology for Integrated Water Management Scholarships

Technology for Integrated Water Management Scholarships: Technology for Integrated Water Management’ focuses on understanding the water system and on applying technology to enhance integrated water management and –policy. The programme aims to improve the understanding of concepts and systems and enhances knowledge regarding tools and technologies. This will enable innovative planning and action from a […]

Master of Water Resources Engineering Scholarships

Master of Water Resources Engineering Scholarships: The Master programme of Water Resources Engineering is a two-year study programme with a total study load of 120 ECTS, equally spread over the 2 years. First year consists of courses in: Advanced Mathematics for Water Engineering, Statistics for Water Engineering, Irrigation Agronomy, Aquatic Ecology, Hydraulics, Surface Hydrology, Groundwater […]

Uganda to increase electricity production

Uganda is set to increase power production this month with the commissioning of the first 25mw phase of Bujagali hydro electric power dam. The dam has been commissioned today by the Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi. The dam is designed to supply power to the national power grid. The 25mw is half the capacity of the […]

Government, World bank to start bioelectricity project

The World Bank in partnership with the Agency for Promoting Sustainable Development Initiatives (ASDI) and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development will tomorrow, February 1, 2012 launch a pilot project for the promotion of bioelectricity in Uganda at Kayei Landing Site, Akokoro Sub-County,  Apac District. Over 100 households in the area around Kayei Landing Site […]

East Africa MPs want countries to deal with Water hyacinth

Ultimate Media The Ugandan representative to the East African Legislative Assembly Dan kidega has demanded the East African governments through the East African council of ministers to agree on the method of dealing with the problem of water hyacinth reported on lake Victoria again. This followed the EALA committee on  Accounts on the East African community […]

Betty Kamya says she will contest for president again

Former Lubaga North MP Betty Olive Kamya says that she will take part in the next presidential elections come 2016. Kamya has told our informers that last time she lost the polls because she did not have enough money and she was a new entrant in the field.  She says that this time she has […]

Weasel nearly droned in pool

  Singer Weasel TV nearly lost his life when he attempted to swim at hotel Africana in Kampala yet he has never stepped in even a basin of water. Weasel had gone to African in company of his colleagues just to have fan and when the singer saw his pals swim he attempted to give […]

MPs shocked government has no water expert on Owens Falls Dam

Members of Parliament investigating the mismanagement of the Power sector have today heard that the Government of Uganda does not have any expert to represent it in monitoring the water levels at the Kiira Dam as it is discharged to generate power. The power generation at the dam is managed through a concession by Eskom, […]

Marine police searching for bodies of Danish Tourists

A team of profession marine police officers have been dispatched from Kampala today to search for the two Danish tourists who drowned in Lake Bunyonyi last evening. Lake Bunyonyi in western Uganda, Kabale district is said to be one of the deepest lakes in African. The Danish embassy in Uganda chartered the aircraft that airlifted […]