**5.1 Wetlands**

Wetlands are a vital part of theecosystem and one of the most important natural resources that contribute to the district's environmental health and socio-economic stability. They retain a tremendous amount of fresh water and provide buffering capacity against pollution, flooding and siltation. In order to assess their area of coverage, a final inventory and demarcation of wetlands in the Lwengo District becomes essential. In Kkingo and Kyazanga sub-County, there are Kyojja and Kiyanja Wetlands, both of which can be created for various economic benefits, such as through craftmaking and bird watching activities.

#### **5.2 Social economic infrastructure**

The district of Lwengo is blessed with a healthy atmosphere as well as an industrious population. The District's key economic profile includes agriculture and husbandry, fishing and trade, and pit sawing. Life standards indicators; employment patterns; patterns of human settlement; productive capital and district economic activities are a part of social economic infrastructure of the place.

Other than this, a lot of economic activities take place as well. Agriculture, livestock keeping, and trade are the major one s, as mentioned, with agriculture being the most significant element in terms of the District's revenue contribution. Employment income amounts to the District's second highest portion of revenue, followed by trade, property income tax, and the cottage industry eventually contributes the least.

### **6. LWENGO district and disaster**

For some time, Lwengo district has suffered disasters, normally the second seasons of rain used to cause such disasters, but disasters have occurred since 2016. In Lwengo, hailstorms, heavy winds, long dry spells, pests and diseases are the main types of disasters (**Figures 4**–**7**).

**Figure 4.** *After a short heavy down pour these are patches of snow that were left behind.*

**Figure 5.** *Banana plants destroyed by strong wind.*

On 9 January 2020, a powerful hailstorm hit several villages in Lwengo sub county inflicting the impact on several villages that further affected numerous crops, including coffee, mangoes, passion fruits, banana, maize and cassava. Leaves of innumerable plants werebroken, stems uprooted further mangoes, bananas, cherries and other fruits in a detrimental state (**Figure 8**).
