FIVE East African Community (EAC), member countries are to benefit from the Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program (NELSAP)'s establishment of a hydrological monitoring network of stations.
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda will have the stations meant to provide real time data and more reliable information to improve water resources planning and management both at national and regional levels.
Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat Knowledge Management Officer, Ms Juliet Nakasagga told the 'Daily News' that the NELSAP component is part of the Nile Basin Regional Hydromet project that is a basin-wide Euros 5.5 million that is funded by the European Union (EU) -Germany's Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
"In the EU-BMZ funded project we will install a total of 80 hydrological stations across the Nile River basin.
As part of the hydrological package, each of the NEL countries will receive water level and rainfall sensors, data loggers, accessories necessary for installation and rehabilitation of selected stations, equipment for water discharge measurements and dual data transmission technology.
