{"id":12320,"date":"2019-04-11T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2019-04-11T07:20:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:20:20","slug":"10-of-water-sources-dried-up-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/10-of-water-sources-dried-up-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"10% of water sources dried up in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaspard Ntakimazi, expert in hydrobiology says it is normal that water fountains get dry while others continue to dry up following climate changes. \u201cWe were not accustomed to water sources that dry up in the country but this used to happen in other countries throughout the world,\u201d he says adding that there are fountains that are only available in the rainy season but they dry up in summer due to climate changes. Professor Ntakimazi refers to those areas where forests don\u2019t exist anymore. \u201cIt\u2019s a cyclical phenomenon as the water sources don\u2019t disappear completely,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12146\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12146\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Eucalyptus-ras\u00e9s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Eucalyptus-ras\u00e9s.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Eucalyptus-ras\u00e9s-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Eucalyptus-ras\u00e9s-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Eucalyptus-ras\u00e9s-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local residents in Gitega province have already started removing eucalyptus trees near water sources<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On 9 April, D\u00e9o Guide Rurema, Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock said 10. 1% of water sources in the country are completely dry while 17.8 % are gradually drying. \u201c4418 water sources will disappear if nothing is done,\u201d he said adding that out of 24,787 water sources located in Burundi, 2508 are dry due to human activities. Minister Rurema also said irregular rainfall, erosion, floods or prolonged droughts are also causing the water sources to dry up and water levels in the rivers and lakes are decreasing.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that Burundi government issued two joint ordinances establishing each Thursday as a national day dedicated to the environment and another one prohibiting the planting of trees absorbing a lot of water in order to protect the sources and the shallows.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ntakimazi also supports the government decision to remove all trees absorbing a lot of water including eucalyptus and other trees with big leaves. \u201cEucalyptus has acid that penetrates into soil and is harmful to water fountains,\u201d he says. For him, growing trees would start from the hilltop. \u201cWater fountains take origin from the mountains. They need to be protected\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaspard Ntakimazi, expert in hydrobiology says it is normal that water fountains get dry while others continue to dry up following climate changes. \u201cWe were not accustomed to water sources that dry up in the country but this used to happen in other countries throughout the world,\u201d he says adding that there are fountains that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[45,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12326,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions\/12326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}