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Mongabay: Heavily polluted and shrinking, Lake Naivasha is in dire trouble. Environmentalists say the cause is clear: flower farms. Some 60 flower farms line the entire lakeside, growing cut flowers for export largely to the EU. While the flowers industry is Kenya's largest horticultural export (405.5 million last year) it may have also produced an environmental nightmare. Environmentalists say that flower farms have taken water from the lake for irrigation and then dumped pesticide-waste back ......
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Flower farms may be killing Kenya’s Lake Naivasha
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 10th, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation