Inter Press ServiceOpening of Kariba Dam Floodgates Not Welcomed by All https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/opening-of-kariba-dam-floodgates-not-welcomed-by-all/ News and Views from the Global South Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:08:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Opening of Kariba Dam Floodgates Not Welcomed by All https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/opening-of-kariba-dam-floodgates-not-welcomed-by-all/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/opening-of-kariba-dam-floodgates-not-welcomed-by-all/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:07:31 +0000 Garikai Chaunza http://www.ipsnews.net/?p=117434

By Garikai Chaunza
Harare, Mar 25 2013 (IPS)

Almost every rainy season the floodgates of Kariba Dam have to be opened to relieve pressure on the dam wall. But despite warnings not to live or farm on the river banks of the Zambezi River downstream of the dam, some people do so
anyway and end up losing their crops.

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