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Major Mozambican dam forced to release more water into flooded region
MAPUTO, March 26 (AFP)
Controllers at Mozambique's Cahora Bassa dam have again been forced to
release more water into the already flooded Zambezi River, where water
levels had been falling, a UN official said Monday. "The information we
have is that Cahora Bassa was forced to open a fourth flood gate on
Saturday" due to heavy rains upstream, UN spokeswoman Frances Christie
told AFP.
Water is pouring into the dam's reservoir at a rate of about 10,350
cubic meters (362,250 cubic feet) a second, while the dam is now
releasing about 8,400 cubic meters (294,000 cubic feet) a second.
The dam had reduced the amount of water it was releasing, which helped
stabilize the Zambezi River's water level. The river had slowly begun
to fall, although it is still at a flood alert level. "The river will
rise up again, but we don't expect the situation to suddenly become
more serious with the forecast being of a reduction of rains in the
next four to five days," Christie said.
Meanwhile, more refugees continue to arrive at emergency shelters in
the Zambezi valley. People who had refused to evacuate at the height of
the floods in late February and early March were now moving into the
camps on their own, apparently because they have run out of food,
Christie said.
About 180,000 people now stay at the camps, jointly run by government
and UN agencies, Christie said. The World Food Program (WFP) initially
had prepared to feed between 150,000 and 170,000 people.
Analysts here have said the latest influx of flood refugees might cause
some food disruption. Christie declined to comment on those reports,
but said the UN had received reports of malnutrition at some camps in
Tete province. On the border with Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe, Tete is
among the provinces hardest-hit by flooding.
So far, 81 people have died in floods, which have affected 635,000
people. Last year, southern Mozambique suffered the worst flooding in
living memory, with at least 700 people dead and damages estimated at
600 million dollars.
Posted by Antonio Teixeira
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