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	Kariba Dam - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Kariba Dam is a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi River basin in Southern Africa (28.74778 E and 16.51222 S).
		A double curvature concrete arch dam it was constructed between 1955 and 1959 at a cost of $135m for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern.
		Final construction and the additon of the Kariba North Power cavern was not completed until 1977 due to largely political problems for a total cost of $480m.
	www.music.us /education/K/Kariba-Dam.htm (455 words)

	Kariba Dam
		The Kariba Dam is a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge[?] of the Zambezi River basin (28.74778 E and 16.51222 S).
		A double curvature concrete arch dam it was constructed between 1955 and 1959 at a cost of $135m for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern.
		Kariba Lake[?], the reservoir created by the dam, extends for 280 km with a storage capacity of 180km³.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kariba_Dam.html (236 words)

	Wikinfo \| Dam
		Dams may be built to provide water for irrigation or town water supply, control the amount of water in rivers or to provide hydroelectric power.
		Earth dams are constructed as a simple homogeneous embankment of well-compacted earth, sometimes with a watertight concrete core or upstream face, or sometimes with a hydraulic fill to produce a watertight core.
		A type of temporary earth dam occasionally used in high lattitudes is the frozen-core dam, in which a coolant is circulated through pipes inside the dam to maintain a watertight region of permafrost within it.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=dam (1112 words)

	dam. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Single-arch dams are curved upstream and are usually constructed in narrow canyons or gorges where the rocky side walls are strong enough to withstand the tremendous lateral thrust of the dam that is caused by the pressure of the water.
		Dams may also be constructed with roller-compacted concrete, in which thin layers of concrete are compacted as if they were earth layers; this produces a far stronger dam, without the need for full forms.
		The Oroville Dam, located in California, the tallest in the United States, is 770 ft (235 m) high; the Rogun Dam, in Russia, the tallest in the world, is 1,100 ft (335 m) high.
	www.bartleby.com /65/da/dam.html (520 words)

	Lake Kariba
		Although the building of the Kariba Dam was surrounded by controversy, both environmentally and socially, it is an impressive monument to man’s engineering expertise.
		Kariba Dam is located approximately halfway down the Zambezi River.
		As the dam began to fill, it became evident that thousands of animals were being stranded on islands.
	www.zambiatourism.com /travel/places/kariba.htm (2901 words)

	Kariba Dam - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The Kariba Dam lies along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
		A public road traces the rim of the dam, between reservoir Lake Kariba and the drop to the Zambezi River.
		The distinct arch shape distributes pressure evenly on the overall structure of the dam.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461560347/Kariba_Dam.html (56 words)

	Kariba Dam Information
		The Kariba Dam is a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin in Zimbabwe.
		The Kariba supplies 1320 MW of electricity to parts of both Zambia (the Copperbelt) and Zimbabwe and generates 6400 GW·h (23 PJ) per annum (occurrence every year).
		Lake Kariba, the reservoir created by the dam, extends for 280 km with a storage capacity of 180 km³.
	www.bookrags.com /Kariba_Dam (186 words)

	Kariba Dam - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kariba Dam, hydroelectric project, in Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi River, on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border, S central Africa; built 1955-59.
		The Kariba project's generators supply electricity to the Copperbelt in Zambia and to parts of Zimbabwe.
		Kariba Lake, the vast reservoir created by the dam, extends c.175 mi (280 km) and has a maximum width of 20 mi (32 km).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-karibada.html (271 words)

	KARIBA DAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Becuase the dam straddles the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia you have to pass through a customs post, and leave your passport with the guard there before you can get on the dam wall itself.
		The concrete arch dam across the Zambezi River at Kariba Gorge, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe was completed in 1959, the structure is 420 feet (128 m) high with a crest 1,899 feet (579 m) in length and a volume of 1,032,000 cubic m.
		Later, however, the dam was accepted because of the inexpensive electric power it furnishes to Zambia's prosperous copper industry.
	www.instantgardens.fsnet.co.uk /zimbabwe/kariba_dam.htm (218 words)

	Kariba Publicity Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The primary purpose of the valuation exercise was to establish the value of Kariba Dam for insurance and accounting purposes and to shed light on third party liabilities in the event of a catastrophic failure of the dam.
		The residual lifetime of the dam was assessed assuming the current level of monitoring and maintenance continues and that, adequate budgetary provisions are made in future for any essential remedial works.
		It is thus paramount that the level of monitoring, surveillance and maintenance of Kariba Dam are kept to very high standards, particularly as the dam is getting older every year and reducing its assumed life span of 130 years.
	www.karibapa.co.zw /aboutkariba/history.htm (1952 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kariba Dam
		The Kariba Dam is a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
		The Kariba supplies 1320 MW of electricity to parts of both Zambia (the Copperbelt) and Zimbabwe and generates 6400 GW·h (23 PJ) per annum (occurrence every year).
		Lake Kariba, the reservoir created by the dam, extends for 280 km with a storage capacity of 180 km³.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kariba_Dam (649 words)

	noah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although the creation of Lake Kariba, 40 years back, can be regarded as a big success in many ways, the cost to the 58,000 people that were forced to move from their homelands has been incredibly high.
		ZRA, the ‘third generation’ organisation that operates, monitors and maintains the Kariba complex, admits that the social consequences of the displacement of the Tonga were not adequately addressed during construction of the dam in 1958 by its predecessor, the Federal Power Board that later became the Central African Power Corporation.
		As the dam was sealed and the waters began to rise the wild animals in the area gradually made way moving to higher ground.
	www.sardc.net /imercsa/zambezi/ZNewsletter/issue3of1/noah.htm (690 words)

	International Rivers Network: Mphanda Nkuwa (Mepanda Nkuwa)
		The Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River is one of Africa’s largest dams, and one with a particularly sorry legacy for those forced to make way for it.
		A report on Kariba by the World Commission on Dams (WCD) notes, "It was reported that the people to be resettled ‘were treated like animals or things rounded up and packed in lorries’ to be moved to their new destination...
		The communities affected by the Kariba Dam are among the poorest in the country hence they cannot afford to send their children to school.
	www.irn.org /programs/mphanda/index.php?id=050428kariba.html (1547 words)

	LakeNet - Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kariba Dam is one of the largest dams in the world.
		The dam was constructed on the Zambezi River along the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia and jointly owned by the two countries.
		Kariba appears to be one of the few successful examples of introducing non-native species to a lake.
	www.worldlakes.org /lakedetails.asp?lakeid=8360 (533 words)

	Travel in Kariba, Zimbabwe - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®
		Lake Kariba, running nearly three hundred kilometres from one end to the other, is a paradise for the discerning tourist who wants to catch a glimpse of an unspoilt Africa that has all but disappeared from the rest of the continent.
		Today, Lake Kariba is the third largest man made reservoir in the world, its two thousand kilometres of shoreline creating a spectacular variety of estuaries that spill into the surrounding bush.
		Kariba is an excellent base from which to explore the rest of Zimbabwe.
	www.africatravelling.net /zimbabwe/kariba/kariba_culture.htm (706 words)

	Dams and Development Project
		The Commission examined the impacts of 125 dams throughout the world, including the Kariba dam on the Zambezi, which supplies Zambia and Zimbabwe with hydroelectric power.
		Meanwhile, plans for future large dams should be subjected to a rigorous process of stakeholder consultation and the examination of alternatives before final and far-reaching decisions are made.
		A common ignorance of the potentially massive ecological impacts of large dams, and of the importance of biological diversity to human wellbeing, was illustrated by the comment that "dam building shouldn't be held up because of a few frogs".
	www.unep.org /dams/documents/default.asp?documentid=426 (493 words)

	Kariba Dam. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		One of the world’s largest dams, it is 420 ft (128 m) high and 1,900 ft (579 m) long.
		The Kariba project’s generators supply electricity to the Copperbelt in Zambia and to parts of Zimbabwe.
		Kariba Lake, the vast reservoir created by the dam, extends c.175 mi (280 km) and has a maximum width of 20 mi (32 km).
	www.bartelby.com /65/ka/KaribaDa.html (162 words)

	Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe - Go2Africa Zimbabwe Holiday Travel Guide
		It is the continent’s third largest dam after Aswan in Egypt and Cahora Bassa on the same river in neighbouring Mozambique.
		Against these odds, the dam to produce hydroelectricity for use by both Zimbabwe and bordering Zambia, was completed in December 1958 and officially opened by the Queen Mother, a year-and-a-half later.
		Kariba is a singular example of the co-habitation of man and animal.
	www.go2africa.com /zimbabwe/kariba/lake-kariba (607 words)

	About Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe
		Kariba is located in the Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe - southern Africa - on the north eastern border with Zambia - 365 km from the Zimbabwean capital Harare.
		In 1955 a point on the Zambezi River known as "kariwa" (a trap) became a hive of activity with the construction of the Kariba dam wall.
		The surrounds of Lake Kariba became a fascinating turmoil of ecological change - parts of which now teem with an abundance of flora and fauna in a striking and diverse terrain.
	www.sportstravel.co.za /places/kariba.htm (559 words)

	Kariba Publicity Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The dam wall at Kariba is a vast concrete arch more than half a kilometre long and over a hundred metres deep, it is one of the most impressive man made sights in the whole of Africa.
		Mareges dam in France, a 90 m-high double curvature arch dam, commissioned in 1935, was the largest dam of this type in Europe.
		As the dam was sealed and the waters began to rise, the wild animals in the
	www.karibapa.co.zw /aboutkariba/aboutkariba.html (5421 words)

	into Africa adventures
		Kariba dam wall was finished in 1958 and has resulted in one of the largest manmade lakes in the world.
		Kiplings of Kariba is situated at the mouth of the Ume River on the southern side of the Lake and overlooks the well-known Matusadona National Park and provides excellent views of the Lake itself.
		Kariba still has an eery feel about it with dead trees (killed by the inital flooding of the valley and not yet rotted away) sticking out of the water providng magnificent, almost surreal, photo opportunities during sunset and sunrise.
	www.adventures.co.za /zim_art.htm (4079 words)

	Dam design and operation to optimize fish production in impounded river basins
		Kariba dam reduced flood magnitude of the Zambezi River by an average of 24 percent in eight out of ten years (1970–80 period) (SWECO/SWED Power 1981).
		Downstream from Kariba dam as far as the upper boundary of Cahora Bassa reservoir an expanding river fishery operates from the Zambian side of the Zambezi River producing over 750 t/year (du Toit, 1982).
		Sardines in viable condition are discharged in large numbers from Kariba dam and are fed on by tigerfish in the tailrace zone (Kenmuir, 1975a).
	www.fao.org /docrep/005/AC675E/AC675E06.htm (5225 words)

	Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Kariba Dam, which has changed the face of the Zambezi valley, by creating the Lake Kariba.
		Kariba is not the best destination in the rainy season, as it has been know to reach 50 degrees Celsius.
		The very pretty water hyacinth was introduced to Lake Kariba by a well-meaning European: now it chokes much of the Lake and the Gache Gache River.
	zimbabe.tripod.com /KARIBA.htm (396 words)

	Kariba - Zimbabwe, Africa
		The town is spread along approximately 20km of the Lake Kariba shoreline with its western boundary on the Zambezi River.
		Kariba was officially declared a town in 1977.
		Kariba is the ideal launching point into Chizarira, Matusadona, Lake Kariba, Mana Pools and the remote wilderness areas in the north and west of Zimbabwe.
	www.zambezi.com /kariba.html (672 words)

	Lake Kariba
		Lake Kariba is a man-made lake created following the completion of the Kariba Dam which was built between 1955 and 1959 to harness the waters of the Zambezi River and provide hydro-electric power to both Zimbabwe and Zambia.
		Whilst the rain is generally good for wildlife around Zimbabwe, for the area of Matusadona and Lake Kariba this has meant that the fertile grass shores are now under water and a vital food supply for many animals has been cut off.
		Another fascinating sight on Lake Kariba is the small fishing village of Nyanzirawo near Bumi Hills in the mouth of the Ume River.
	www.btinternet.com /~stuart.melvin/html/lake_kariba.html (672 words)

	THE POST - Zambia's Leading Newspaper : Mitigating impact of Kariba Dam
		DURING the construction of the Kariba Dam in the late 1950s, a total of 55,000 settlers in the Gwembe Valley in Southern Province were displaced from their settlement areas.
		One of the dams that were built from the project funds is the Siabbamba Earth fill dam in headman Siabbamba’s area.
		The Siabbamba dam is strategically situated to cater for nine villages with an estimated 200 households.
	www.postzambia.com /post-read_article.php?articleId=13917 (1602 words)

	Foreign Aid Tour - Karriba Dam [ Biz/ed Virtual Developing Country ]
		Along its length there were a number of locations where a dam could be built however the impact on the people living in the Zambezi's valley was always going to be considerable.
		After much debate about the relative merits of building a dam at Kariba and Kafue in 1955 the governments of Federation of Nyasaland and Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) and Zambia eventually decided to go ahead with a joint hydro electric project at Kariba.
		The dam was completed in 1960 and hydro-electric production was introduced in two phases, the first on the south bank in 1960 and then a second on the north bank in 1976.
	www.bized.co.uk /virtual/dc/aid/kariba/issue1.htm (509 words)

	Water is Life - Irrigation dams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The build-up of silt behind dams is reducing their water storage capacity according to the United Nations.
		The Kariba Dam is used for power generation and irrigation for industrial and institutional water supply.
		Another is the Maheshwar Dam which would submerge some of the richest agricultural lands in the area.
	academic.evergreen.edu /g/grossmaz/JOLITZMW (1405 words)

	The Legend of Nyaminyami - River God of the Zambezi, legend of Kariba
		For many years Nyaminyami and his wife stayed safely at Kariba, the spot which was their home and near that spot, that's where it all began.
		The story of the dam wall construction and the floods in 1957 and 1958 are well documented.
		In Kariba there are still occasional earth tremors from the load of the lake on the earth's surface.
	www.safariafrica.co.za /nyaminyami.htm (1073 words)

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