Editing Lake Victoria (section)

===Nalubaale Dam===
{{Main|Nalubaale Power Station}}
[[File:From top of Nalubaale Power Station.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station]] in [[Njeru]], Uganda.]]
The only outflow for Lake Victoria is at Jinja, Uganda, where it forms the Victoria Nile. The water for at least 12,000 years has drained across a natural rock weir. In 1952, engineers acting for the government of [[British Uganda|Colonial Uganda]] blasted out the weir and reservoir to replace it with an artificial barrage to control the level of the lake and reduce the gradual erosion of the rock weir. A standard for mimicking the old rate of outflow called the "agreed curve" was established, setting the maximum flow rate at 300 to 1,700 [[Cubic metre per second|cubic metres per second]] (392–2,224 [[cubic yard|cu&nbsp;yd]]/sec) depending on the lake's water level.

In 2002, Uganda completed a second [[hydroelectric]] complex in the area, the [[Kiira Hydroelectric Power Station]], with [[World Bank]] assistance. By 2006, the water levels in Lake Victoria had reached an 80-year low, and Daniel Kull, an independent hydrologist living in [[Nairobi]], Kenya, calculated that Uganda was releasing about twice as much water as is allowed under the agreement,<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925384.100 |title=Uganda pulls plug on Lake Victoria |journal=[[New Scientist]] |date=9 February 2006 |author=Fred Pearce |volume=2538 |page=12 |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-date=13 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013113221/http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925384.100 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was primarily responsible for recent drops in the lake's level.