Climate Changed
World’s Biggest Reservoir May Stop Power Output Amid Drought
- Kariba dam’s water level has fallen to 10% of usable storage
- Rain this season has been below normal for the catchment area
Lake Kariba on Dec. 1.
Source: NASA
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Zambia risks having to switch off power production completely at the Kariba hydropower dam for the first time as water levels already at the lowest in more than two decades continue to drop, according to the state-owned electricity utility.
“The risk is there,” Patrick Mwila, strategy and corporate services director at Zesco Ltd., told reporters Thursday in Lusaka, the capital. “We are doing all that we can to ensure that that plant continues operating.”