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Bujagali Falls (also spelled Budhagali) was a waterfall near Jinja in Uganda where the Nile River comes out of Lake Victoria, sometimes considered the source of the Nile. Starting November 2011, the falls were submerged by the new Bujagali Dam.

Dam

An acute electricity crisis impacted the livelihoods of millions of Ugandans and threatened the country's development. Hospitals, schools, businesses, and residences suffered daily power shortages, which have stunted Uganda's economic growth by an estimated one percent of the country's gross domestic product. The Bujagali project is a 200MW hydropower[1] facility on the Victoria Nile in Uganda that will help address the country's energy crisis. The project supports Uganda's broader development strategy, which focuses in large part on improving the investment climate to promote growth and reduce poverty.

Others say the costly dam's power will not meet the needs of the vast majority of the country's population, will drown a sacred waterfall, and could do further harm to Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake. Approximately 6,800 people will be directly affected by the creation of the dam.[1]

The Bujagali 'Spirit'

The falls are said by local residents to be the site of a spirit, called the "Spirit of Bujabald," who protects the community by performing rituals at the falls. The spirit is embodied in a man, Jjaajja Budhagali, who lives next to the falls; he is the thirty-ninth person to be the spirit.[2]

See also

• Bujagali Power Station

References

External links

• Eastern Uganda Grapples with Power Plant Project
• World Bank Group and Bujagali
• Internationals Rivers' Informative page on Bujugali
• The story of the Bujagali Hydropower Project
• Latest Flickr Photo

На других языках

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Bujagali (Budhagali auf Lusoga, der vom Volk der Basoga im Königreich Busoga gesprochenen Sprache) hießen Stromschnellen bei Jinja in Uganda unweit der Stelle, wo der Nil den Viktoriasee verlässt. Die Stromschnellen (englisch Bujagali Falls) erhielten ihren Namen nach einer Familie, die von alters her für die Stromschnellen und die sie umgebenden heiligen Plätze verantwortlich war. Am 2. Februar 2012 wurde die erste von fünf Turbinen zur Stromgewinnung am flussabwärts gelegenen Bujagali-Damm in Betrieb genommen, seit dessen Flutung, die Ende 2011 begann, sind die Wasserfälle verschwunden.[1]

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