{"id":193249,"date":"2025-03-10T06:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kariba-cahora-bassa-hydro-output-primed-for-boost-after-heavy-rains\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T06:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:57:27","slug":"zimbabwe-kariba-cahora-bassa-hydro-output-primed-for-boost-after-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kariba-cahora-bassa-hydro-output-primed-for-boost-after-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Kariba, Cahora Bassa Hydro Output Primed for Boost After Heavy Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Steady inflow improvements into two of the SADC region&#8217;s major reservoirs for hydroelectricity generation along the Zambezi River have brightened prospects for power generation until the last quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s largest hydroelectric plant, Kariba Dam and Mozambique&#8217;s Cahora Bassa Dam have both accumulated significant inflows during the current season after experiencing reduced inflows following a drought in the previous season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">As a result of the drought, most southern African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steady inflow improvements into two of the SADC region&#8217;s major reservoirs for hydroelectricity generation along the Zambezi River have brightened prospects for power generation until the last quarter of this year. Zimbabwe&#8217;s largest hydroelectric plant, Kariba Dam and Mozambique&#8217;s Cahora Bassa Dam have both accumulated significant inflows during the current season after experiencing reduced inflows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,11373,6557,18076,8130,15895,591,257,11754,49563,15767,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bassa","tag-boost","tag-cahora","tag-heavy","tag-hydro","tag-kariba","tag-news","tag-output","tag-primed","tag-rains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193249","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=193249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}