How best to save Lake Victoria - West of Kenya?

Question

With water levels dropping due to more & more human use of water from Lake Victoria, couldn't one long-term alternative be to pipe in fresh water from the Indian Ocean? A desalinization plant could provide (say) 50 MM gallons of fresh water daily not only to the lake, but also to other cities. Seems to me a pipeline from (say) Mombasa to Nairobi and another to Kisumu could provide fresh water to both these cities and to the lake, provided that the water is not stolen along the way. Neighboring countries could provide financial aid in the creation of both the pipeline and desalization plant upon guarantees that the water would eventually end up benefiting Lake Victoria and its general health. What do others think?

Answer 1

Why not just pipe the water to where it's needed then?  It's just not economically feasible.

Answer 2

The water level is dropping because Uganda is draining water to generate electricity:

"Kull estimates that in the past two years, the Ugandan dams have released water at an average of almost 1250 cubic metres per second. That is 55 per cent more than the flow permitted for the relevant water levels."

-- http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?i...

No one is going to add water to Lake Victoria at great expense to allow Uganda to drain even more water for their electrical grid.

This is not a scientific or environmental problem ... it is a political problem.  Kenya can call for all the action they want, but the solution will be to damage Uganda's hydro-electrical generators and/or dams.

The US and Canada divide the Niagara river water very carefully through int'l treaty.

Africa could care less about treaties, hence it is not a problem for anyone outside of Africa to address.