DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- A meeting aimed at addressing pollution caused by human activities was held in Tanzania's commercial hub of Dar es Salaam Tuesday, with attendance of participants from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Burundi.

       A project involving 2 billion U.S. dollars to restore degraded Lake Victoria is expected to start soon, said Hilda Luoga, who is in charge of the project development with the Lake Victoria Basin Commission, a specialized agency of the East African Community, at the meeting.

       The project, which will be undertaken by the agency in ten years, entails controlling the solid waste, sanitation and drainage systems that pollute the lake, said Luoga, warning that the lake shared by Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda was facing serious pollution caused by human activities.

       A study conducted by the World Bank in 2020 showed that three cities of Mwanza in Tanzania, Entebbe in Uganda and Homabay in Kenya were the main polluters of Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake by area and the world's largest tropical lake, according to him.