If tourism is not properly managed and controlled in the Okavango Delta, it may exacerbate the threat to biodiversity and sustainable use of resources, Professor Joseph Mbaiwa of the University of Botswana’s Okavango Research Institute (ORI) is quoted as saying in The Patriot..

In a presentation at the 17th Waternet/WARFSA/GWP-SA  Symposium in Gaborone, Mbaiwa added that although the Okavango Delta is one of Africa’s prime wildlife tourism destinations, the industry is beginning to pose some environmental threats on water resources due to poor waste disposal by the use of septic tanks for wastewater collection in hotels or sewage discharge from lodges or houseboats.