Launch of the Great Lakes to Great Lakes Initiative

"Participants gather at the inaugural Great Lakes to Great Lakes Initiative on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma, Tanzania".

"‎The North American and African Great Lakes systems hold nearly half of the world's surface freshwater resources.‎"

The United States Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Russell Feingold, in collaboration with the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA), launched a unique initiative this week to bring together experts from the North American Great Lakes with counterparts from the African Great Lakes to address sustainable management of these trans boundary waters. ‎ Together the North American and African Great Lakes systems hold nearly half of the world's surface freshwater resources.‎

Over three days (February 2-4) on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma, Tanzania, scientists, academics and policymakers from the United States and Canada engaged in an in-depth exchange with colleagues from countries around one of the African Great Lakes‎, Lake Tanganyika, including Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. ‎

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