Managing hydro power
Hydroelectric power is often touted as a good, green source of electricity. But, as with anything else, it has to be managed well. For example, this story about Uganda apparently running too much water through the dams at the outflow of Lake Victoria (the world’s second largest freshwater lake, bordering Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya), which has led to the lake becoming drained. It’s already lost 3% of its volume and its levels are at an 80-year low, “leaving international ferries stranded far from their jetties, fishing boats mired in mud, and towns running low on water.”
pax et bonum
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