Environment Southern Africa

Uganda: NEMA Okays DDT Use Against Malaria

Original Article on www.allafrica.com (posted on the web on 19/06/2006 by Charles Ariko)

  ENVIRONMENT watchdog NEMA has approved DDT for indoor residual spraying to fight malaria.

Dr. Sam Okware, the acting director in-charge of clinical and community health, yesterday said a NEMA Environment Impact Assessment found out that indoor DDT spraying had no negative impact on the environment.

"We have been cleared by NEMA. What is remaining is the resources for us to buy DDT and we start spraying immediately," Okware said.

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Regulations for quality air to be published

Article source: Equinox Daily News (07/06/2006)

Yesterday (06 June 2006), Environmental Affairs and Tourism minister, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, said the first regulations stipulating national standards for ambient air quality would be published in the Government Gazette on Friday for public comment. He said the quality standards for harmful substances such as benzene and sulphur dioxide was extracted from the Air Quality Act and would be incorporated into individual licences for atmospheric emissions.