COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN RIVER HEALTH MANAGEMENT - Lessons from River Mayanja

Presently most of the Worldwide rivers are the most threatened dynamics in rivers have been orchestrated by ecosystems by multiple human pressures like humans as they have had a huge role to play in the pollution, water abstraction, river channelization, deterioration of the rivers and the possibility of them and damming ecosystem degradation through having the key solutions for this and many othe. [...] This is attributed to the fact that water is a Understanding the river health social indicators and critical element in the development of human governance aspects in the management and societies, affecting aspects such as livelihoods since conservation of river ecosystems in the dry and ancient times (Antunes et al., 2009). [...] Njoro engagements where population increase was highlighted as one of the The population of Africa currently stands at pressures of river health degradation including approximately 1.37 billion and is expected to rise in deterioration of the quantity and quality of the river. [...] Knowledge and education is encouraged among different stakeholders in the on their importance need to be a priority to manage, global north and south as well as from the conserve, and restore these ecosystems with the community level to the national level to create a changing dynamics of economic development, basis for co-management of wetlands (van der Zaag, climate change, and other shocks. [...] Additionally, the Water Policy 2021 terms of formulating regulations and policies, promotes stakeholder participation and was researchers giving evidence on the impacts of actions developed in line with the Water Act of 2016, which and best practices and communities by taking the rivers established River Use Associations and Basin Water as their own and cherishing them is key.