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The African Dams Project (ADAPT)

In 2006, an interdisciplinary team with exponents from Eawag, EPF Lausanne, and ETH Zurich in collaboration with African institutions started a research project on integrated water resource management in the Zambezi River Basin. This study deals with problems related to river damming from various perspectives.

Zambezi Basin Overview ( ZambeziGIS under construction)

Why Dams?

Dams offer ways to solve problems of developing countries by producing hydroelectricity, by enhancing water supply, by enabling irrigation, and by providing flood protection. However, construction and operation of dams lead to economic, social and environmental problems.

Itezhi Tezhi Reservoir	Kariba Dam

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