cahora bassa dam造句

• The waters of the Zambezi River on Tuesday flooded low-lying areas of Tete city, the capital of Tete province, after more floodgates were opened on the Cahora Bassa Dam on Monday night.
• A South African air force statement said sluice gates at the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river were to be opened later Tuesday and helicopter crews were warning communities on the river banks to leave their homes.
• Though water was rising slower Friday than the day before, Kachamila said the rate would accelerate again Saturday, when the peak flow from the Cahora Bassa Dam upstream will reach the lower parts of the Zambezi.
• With the beginning of the construction of the Cahora Bassa Dam and the spread of the FRELIMO guerrillas to the Tete region, in the early 1970s, the Navy oriented part of its effort to the Zambezi River.
• The construction of the Cahora Bassa Dam tied up nearly 50 percent of the Portuguese troops in Mozambique, and brought the FRELIMO to the Tete Province, closer to some cities and more populated areas in the south.
• There are two main sources of hydroelectric power on the river, the Kariba Dam, which provides power to Zambia and Zimbabwe, and the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique, which provides power to Mozambique and South Africa.
• Due to a rise in graphite prices work in the mine was suspended in 1999 . In 2007, the Mozambique government announced its intention to re-open the mine, depending on the supply of electricity from the Cahora Bassa dam.
• From the late stages of this notable period of high growth and huge development effort started in the 1950s, was the construction of Cahora Bassa dam by the Portuguese, which started to fill in December 1974 after construction was commenced in 1969 . In 1971 construction work of the Massingir Dam began.
• Eskom, South Africa's state-owned utility, will build two new, 320-kilometer power lines to Maputo from the South African power grid at a combined cost of about $ 100 million by the fourth quarter of 1999 . The plant also will rely on hydroelectric power from the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river in northern Mozambique.