Kariba Dam

By Gift Phiri Zimbabwe's chronic electricity shortages are set to get worse in 2017 as the country’s main source of power, Kariba Dam, continues to record low water levels despite the current rains. At the same time, the country…
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By Phillimon Mhlanga KARIBA - A sharp drop in water levels at Kariba Dam could result in the world’s biggest man-made lake being decommissioned for the first time since it was built in the late 1950s, in what could worsen the crippling…
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Eddie Cross - Some months ago I asked the people who run the Zambezi River Authority for some information on the river flow above Kariba Dam. They refused to give me the information and I had to ask a number of friends in the region to fill…
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A catastrophic failure of the Kariba Dam on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia would put three and a half million lives at risk and knock out forty per cent of southern Africa’s hydroelectricity supply, according to a recent report.
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ELECTRICITY supplies to households and industries will plunge by 400 megawatts (MW) after the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) reduced water allocation for power generation at the Kariba Dam by nearly 30 percent, the Financial Gazette can…
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HARARE - Multinational development cooperating partners and the governments of Zimbabwe and Zambia have signed a US$294 million grant and loan agreement for the Kariba dam wall rehabilitation project.
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