It's reported that the pollution started in the diamond mines in Angola which is to south of Kasai Provinces. The pollution is spreading north toward the Congo River and capital city of Kinshasa.
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The DRC must urgently appeal for international solidarity for the “depollution” of the Kasai and Tshikapa rivers, declared Alain Botoko, the president of the executive committee of the NGO Healthy Environment Without Borders, on Monday 23 August.
“When there are disasters, in the water, often there is international solidarity that intervenes,” he declared.
For him, the more time passes, the more “damage” is likely to multiply in the ecosystem of the Kasai and Tshikapa rivers. We must therefore be able to determine the type of “pollution” as well as the “solutions” to be brought to it quickly, he adds.
"I ask the Ministers of Fisheries and the Minister of the Environment to be able to contact experts around the world so that this pollution can be clearly determined. What are the chemical elements that are in these waters? Why are there deaths of aquatic animals and fish? Why do some people who drink this water suffer from diarrhea? If we find all these elements, we can now seek how to clean up these ecosystems which are very strategic for us, ”suggests Alain Botoko.
https://www.radiookapi.net/2021/08/24/actualite/societe/pollution-des-rivieres-kasai-et-tshikapa-une-ong-plaide-pour-une
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