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dam-l Mozambique Dam study/LS
The following is from Mozambique News Agency updates (No.150, 26th January
1999).
>France and Germany finance feasibility study
>
>Germany and France have granted about $7 million to fund a feasibility
>study of the utilisation of the economic potential of the Zambezi
>valley, between the Cahora Bassa dam and the city of Tete, in western
>Mozambique.
>
>A document to formalise the contract for the study was signed on 13
>January in Maputo, between the Mozambican Unit for the Implementation
>of Hydroelectric Projects (UTIP) and a consortium encompassing the
>German "Lahmeyer International", the French "Electricite de France",
>and the British "Knight Piesola" companies. UTIP functions under the
>Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy.
>
>The study is to determine the feasibility of building a hydroelectric
>dam in the area of Mepanda Ncua, on the Zambezi about 70 kilometres
>downstream from Cahora Bassa. Besides the German, French and British
>firms, some Mozambican companies will also take part in the project as
>providers of support services.
>
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