evidence: Lake Victoria: The Mother of the Nile [...] Lake Victoria (Fig. 4.1a), the world’s third largest lake and the largest in the developing world, is ideally the "mother of the Nile" given the seasonality characteristics of the Blue Nile. It is the source of the White Nile (see Fig. 2.4), which flows from Jinja in Uganda (Fig. 4.1b) to join the Blue Nile (see Chap. 2) in Khartoum (Sudan) to form one Nile and provides water for irrigation, transport, domestic and livestock uses, and supports the livelihood of more than 76 million people who live around it [6, 12, 17]. [...] Fuggle RF (2004) Lake Victoria: a case study of complex interrelationship. In: United Nations environmental program: Africa environmental outlook case studies. Physical dynamics of