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>Planned Dam Given Favourable Environmental Assessment
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>UN Integrated Regional Information Network (Nairobi)
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>April 23, 2001
>Posted to the web April 23, 2001
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>A controversial new dam planned for Mepanda Uncua on
>the Zambezi river in Mozambique's western province of
>Tete would inundate a relatively small area, creating
>a lake that was only 100-square km in area.
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>This was one of the findings reported by PANA on
>Saturday from a preliminary environmental and social
>assessment by the Mozambican government's Technical
>Unit for the Implementation of Hydroelectric Projects
>(UTIP).
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>Mepanda Uncua is 61 km downstream from the Cabora
>Bassa dam and the plan is to build a dam and power
>station there capable of generating 1,200 megawatts.
>According to experts from a Mozambican company,
>Impacto, which specialises in environmental impact
>assessments, Mepanda Uncua is located at a spot where
>the Zambezi tumbles through a narrow ravine.
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>The geology means that the lake created will be
>nowhere near as large as the Cabora Bassa lake, or the
>Kariba lake in Zimbabwe, according to the report. It
>said studies indicated that Mepanda Uncua would drown
>a relatively small area of forest, and almost no
>arable land. A preliminary count of the people living
>in the area indicated that about 1,000 people would
>have to be resettled elsewhere, the report added.
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>However, in South Africa concerns have been raised
>among some environmentalists over the wisdom of
>builing yet another dam on the Zambezi. They have
>argued that the recent flooding in Mozambique was
>exacerbated by the system of dams along the river
>valley and their alleged priority of foreign exchange
>generation rather than coordinated water flow
>management.
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>The other hydro-electric project favoured by UTIP was
>the building of a second power station at Cabora Bassa
>- the current one, with a generating capacity of 2,075
>megawatts, is on the south bank of the river.
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>A north bank power station could generate a further
>600 megawatts, and would have no additional impact on
>the flow of the Zambezi, the report said, adding that
>the most economic option would be to build the Mepanda
>Uncua dam first, and the Cabora Bassa north bank power
>station later. Initial estimates of the investment
>required were about US $1.25 billion for the Mepanda
>Uncua, and about US $469 million for Cabora Bassa
>north, the report said.
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       Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
         and Editor, World Rivers Review
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               1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
                   Tel. (510) 848 1155   Fax (510) 848 1008
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       Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
         and Editor, World Rivers Review
            International Rivers Network   <'})))>><
               1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
                   Tel. (510) 848 1155   Fax (510) 848 1008
	   http://www.irn.org
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