90% of households use firewood, charcoal for cooking in Uruguay

“Over 90% of the households use wood fuel for cooking,” Ssennono said, urging the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to devise interventions that might save the depletion of forests in the country

Almost each menage within the country either uses charcoal or fuel for the change of state, the 2016/2017 Uganda National menage Survey has noted, revealing that the dependency on fuel as a supply of energy is straining the setting.

According to Vincent Fred Ssennono, a lead research worker at the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), an oversized portion of households exploitation wood fuel for the change of state, is in northern, Karamoja, West Nile River, and Kigezi sub-regions.

The National menage Survey, that was discharged these days at the workplace of the UBOS, conjointly indicates that access to washing water and electricity has improved. Clean water coverage is at eightieth, whereas access to electricity is at twenty-first.


The main supply of sunshine in rural areas may be a kerosine lamp. The accomplishment rate has conjointly inflated from seventieth to seventy-four.

The survey has placed the country’s population at thirty seven.7%.