内容摘要：Maduro has hailed the result as a "victory of peace and stability" and celebrated the fact that his party had regained control of the states of Zulia and, in particular, Barinas, the home state of his predecessor in office and political mentor, Hugo Chávez.

Maduro has hailed the result as a "victory of peace and stability" and celebrated the fact that his party had regained control of the states of Zulia and, in particular, Barinas, the home state of his predecessor in office and political mentor, Hugo Chávez.

"If we don't build them now, we wait another 10 years, it's going to cost even more, so we can't keep kicking the can down the road any longer."But building reservoirs doesn't come cheaply, even with accelerated planning processes. That could ultimately filter down to people's bills.

Nor does it come quickly. No new major reservoirs are due to be completed this decade.Some experts highlight that reservoirs are no silver bullet, and warn that managing how we use water needs to take greater precedence in a warming climate."We need a complete overhaul of the way we use water, to plug leaks, cut down on waste and store water where it falls as rain," said Prof Hannah Cloke of the University of Reading.

"It would be better to make more difficult decisions around regulation of new building, as well as retrofitting older homes and businesses, to cut waste and recycle water where it is used, rather than pumping water across huge distances," she added.And like any major project, the new reservoirs could prove unpopular with local communities, particularly those whose homes and farmland are cleared to make way for them.

"The decision by the government to fast-track through the 'national significant infrastructure' route is in my opinion very bad and will make the public very angry," argued Dr Kevin Grecksch of the University of Oxford.

But David Porter of ICE stressed the need to take decisions "for the greater good".Mwangi said his "abduction" was shocking in how brazen it was as he had been "picked from a very prominent hotel".

"So having been abducted during broad daylight and never knowing where I was, and I was still tortured, means that the Tanzanian government doesn't care about what people think about it," he told the BBC.Earlier, Atuhaire said that despite Uganda being "very dictatorial", she did not imagine she "would find a worse foreign country, a worse government".

Mwangi said their experience showed "how broken" countries in East Africa were."So it makes me more of a pan-African in this fight," he told the BBC.