Is ageing Kariba Dam Wall doomed?
Sifelani Tsiko The Interview
A new study by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health warns that ageing dams pose a growing threat to public safety due to the potential for dam failures, over topping or leaks. Kariba Dam, a 128-metre-tall dam which stores 180 cubic kilometres of water straddling Zimbabwe and Zambia on the Zambezi River is cited as an example in the report. In this report, our Agriculture, Environment & Innovations Editor
Sifelani Tsiko (ST) speaks to the Zambezi River Authority chief executive Engineer
Munyaradzi Munodawafa (MM) on the findings of the report and how the authority is working to minimise the potential threats to human safety and the environment posed by the Kariba Dam.
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By News ReportNEW YORK: From the Hoover Dam in Arizona to the Inguri Dam in Georgia, many of the world s most famous dams are risk of collapsing, a worrying new report has warned.Most of the 58,700.
World s ageing big dams pose emerging risk : UN
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22/01/2021 - 17:09 3 min
Paris (AFP)
By 2050, more than half the global population will live downstream from tens of thousands of large dams near or past their intended lifespan, according to a UN report released Friday.
Most of the world s nearly 59,000 big dams constructed between 1930 and 1970 were designed to last 50 to 100 years, according to research from the UN University s Institute for Water, Environment and Health. This is an emerging global risk that we are not yet paying attention to, co-author and Institute director Vladimir Smakhtin told AFP. In terms of dams at risk, the number is growing year by year, decade by decade.
A bridge to a lakeside campground spans part of Northern California’s Shasta Lake in November 2019. Created when the federal government finished the Shasta Dam in 1945, the reservoir is the third largest body of water in the state behind Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea. (Courthouse News Photo / Chris Marshall)
PARIS (AFP) By 2050, more than half the global population will live downstream from tens of thousands of large dams near or past their intended lifespan, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
Most of the world’s nearly 59,000 big dams constructed between 1930 and 1970 were designed to last 50 to 100 years, according to research from the U.N. University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health.