This was behind a paywall in an Italian newspaper
Zimbabwe,
temperatures reach 51 ° C: the Victoria Falls are dry
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The UNESCO heritage dried up by the most severe wave of drought in the last forty years.
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The economic and environmental damage is enormous.
- Seven million people risk starving to death
SOME
parts of the country experienced record-breaking high temperatures
yesterday as the country came under the spell of a heat wave that is
also expected to affect the country today, the Meteorological
Services Department (MSD) has said.
MSD
forecaster Mr James Ngoma yesterday said very hot temperatures were
recorded in Nyanga, where they topped 38 degrees Celsius, up from the
previous record of 32 degrees Celsius.
“Chisengu
and Mutare recorded 39 degrees Celsius and 40 degrees Celsius, up
from 37degrees Celsius and 39 degrees Celsius, respectively,” he
said.
Kariba
recorded the highest temperature of 42 degrees Celsius, Victoria
Falls 40, Great Zimbabwe 29, Vumba 35, Harare 35, Bulawayo 35, Gweru
35, Mutare 40, Lupane, 42, Gwanda 41 and Marondera 39 degrees
Celsius
.
The
flow at the Africa’s biggest waterfall is at its lowest since 1995,
highlighting the threat posed by a drought to tourism and electricity
generation in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Flow
has slumped to 109 cubic meters-per-second (3,850 cubic feet) at
Victoria Falls, a 1.7-kilometer (1.1 mile) curtain of falling water
at the peak of a normal wet season, according to the Zambezi River
Authority. The falls on the Zambezi river straddle the border between
Zimbabwe and Zambia and the flow of the watercourse fills the Kariba
Dam, the site of the two countries’ largest power plants.
The
drought threatens to deter tourists from visiting the site, could
curtail a lucrative white-water rafting industry in the gorge below
the cataract and may see the power plants at Kariba shut down,
worsening power cuts in both countries. Elephants at nearby game
parks are dying of hunger, further damaging the tourism industry.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-31/biggest-african-waterfall-at-24-year-low-imperils-tourism-power
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