Victoria Falls flowing at its highest in decades. Photo taken yesterday. Photo Credit: @realvictoriafalls
Victoria Falls is currently flowing at its highest in decades! It’s an amazing sight when just over a year ago – December 2019 – Elisha Moyo, Principal Climate Change Researcher at Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Environment, Climate and Tourism, told the BBC that the average flow over the Victoria Falls during that year had been down by almost 50%. The famous tourist spot was suffering from the lowest rainfall in almost four decades during the 2018-2019 period.
As evidenced by the photo above, the water is back! The photograph was taken yesterday according to Facebook page Victoria Falls… and, as can be seen in the video below, the smoke is thundering! (Victoria Falls’ nickname is Mosi-oa-Tunya; which means ‘The smoke that thunders’, referencing the clouds of mist that rise above the falls.)
By Matabeleland North Correspondent
Victoria Falls: Tension between city council and residents continues after the parties have failed to find common ground on what the latter finds as exorbitant water charges imposed for this year by the local authority.
Council last month effected a 400 percent increase in water and service charges resulting in residents petitioning councillors for engagement.
Victoria Falls City Council’s 2021 budget is close to US$5 million.
Residents said they had received water bills of about $4 000 last month and feared they will not be able to meet the payments.
Residents complained the rates were too high especially at a time the tourism town was on its knees because of the hardships brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant closure of the lucrative industry.
ANANTARA: For many travellers, a visit to Victoria Falls is nothing more than a pit stop on a wider tour of Africa warranting a day trip and nothing more. That is a mistake.
Locals call this raging expanse of water “Mosi-oa-Tunya,” or “The Smoke That Thunders.” Cascading over the edge of 1.7 kilometers of craggy gorge and plunging 100 meters to the rocks below, the waterfall gives off such a huge volume of mist that the plumes are visible for miles in every direction.
While it is neither the world’s highest waterfall (Angel Falls in Denmark) nor its widest (Khone Phapheng Falls in Laos), Victoria Falls’ UNESCO World Heritage Site listing states that it is “the world’s largest sheet of falling water” landing it on the list of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World; a gaping crevasse in the earth through which the mighty Zambezi flows, separating Zambia and Zimbabwe.
YOUNGSTOWN The 7th District Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that dismissed a civil suit filed by a Warren woman over the purchase of a used car.
The ruling means the case goes back to Judge Maureen Sweeney and her magistrate, Dennis Sarisky, for further litigation.
Sweeney ruled Oct. 30, 2019, in favor of the request of Edward Wallace of Youngstown for summary judgment, meaning a decision by a judge without a trial. Wallace was the seller of the car.
Sweeney ruled that Wallace did not violate the Consumer Sales Practice Act because there was insufficient evidence that Wallace met the definition of a “supplier” of goods or that he committed an unfair and / or deceptive and / or unconscionable act or practice.
YOUNGSTOWN The 7th District Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that dismissed a civil suit filed by a Warren woman over the purchase of a used car.
The ruling means the case goes back to Judge Maureen Sweeney and her magistrate, Dennis Sarisky, for further litigation.
Sweeney ruled Oct. 30, 2019, in favor of the request of Edward Wallace of Youngstown for summary judgment, meaning a decision by a judge without a trial. Wallace was the seller of the car.
Sweeney ruled that Wallace did not violate the Consumer Sales Practice Act because there was insufficient evidence that Wallace met the definition of a “supplier” of goods or that he committed an unfair and / or deceptive and / or unconscionable act or practice.