Lakes and Rivers in Uganda:
Uganda is a country with many water bodies that are widely spread in different locations of the country. It’s recorded that nearly one fifth of the total area of the country 44,000 sqkm is open water. Uganda has four of the East Africa’s great lakes and these are Lake Victoria, Lake Kyoga, Lake Edward and Lake Albert.
Lake Victoria dominates the southeastern parts of the country with almost half of its 10,200-square-kilometer area lying inside Uganda. Lake Victoria is the 2nd largest inland fresh water body in the whole world after Lake Superior and it feeds the upper waters of the Nile River, which is referred to as the Victoria Nile.
Lake Kyoga and the other surrounding basins dominate the central parts of the country. Other extensions of Lake Kyoga are Lake Kwania, Lake Bugondo, and Lake Opeta which make up the “finger lakes”. These are surrounded by swampland especially during the rainy seasons.
As Lake Victoria ends at Owen Falls Dam, the Victoria Nile descends as it travels toward the northwest. The River widens again to form Lake Kyoga and receives the Kafu River from the west before flowing north to Lake Albert. From Lake Albert, the Nile is known as the Albert Nile as it travels roughly 200 kilometers to the Sudan border.
Other lakes are:
The Katonga River flows westward from Lake Victoria to Lake George. Lake George and Lake Edward are connected by the Kazinga Channel. The Semliki River flows into Lake Edward from the north, where it drains parts of Zaire and forms a portion of the Uganda-Zaire border.
Other Rivers are:
Zoka River, River Achwa (Aswa in Sudan), Pager River and the Dopeth-Okok River in the northeast, and the Mpologoma River, which drains into Lake Kyoga from the southeast. There is also River Sezibwa and Mubeya in the central.