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IN probably the country’s worst drought in living memory, Zambia’s hydropower capacity has been wiped out due to climate change, throwing the country into an inevitable energy crisis.<\/p>\n
Reduced water levels, to an all-time low, in the Kariba Da, has seen Zambia’s average electricity supply of about 2,200 megawatts for domestic and industrial usage dwindle to just over 1,000 megawatts.<\/p>\n
Zambia’s traditional energy sources have mainly been hydropower generated from Kariba and ItezhiTezhi power…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> IN probably the country’s worst drought in living memory, Zambia’s hydropower capacity has been wiped out due to climate change, throwing the country into an inevitable energy crisis. Reduced water levels, to an all-time low, in the Kariba Da, has seen Zambia’s average electricity supply of about 2,200 megawatts for domestic and industrial usage dwindle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651875:1fd7e8e4758a35d0fca40af146a3359c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7796,3723,18827,7424,257,49148,4631,254,20330,4709,881],"class_list":["post-181974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-crisis","tag-dynamics","tag-energy","tag-news","tag-rooftop","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-units","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651875:1fd7e8e4758a35d0fca40af146a3359c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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