Cahora Bassa Dam by International Rivers

Cahora Bassa Dam and Reservoir located on the Zambezi River in Mozambique and was completed in 1975. For the past 40 years, however, the pulse of the Zambezi’s ancient flood cycle has been harnessed by the colossal Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams. Built with the promise that they would stimulate regional economic growth through hydropower production, these developments have come at great cost to the marginalized people and wildlife of the Zambezi basin. Nowhere has this hardship been more pronounced than in the lower Zambezi valley of Mozambique. For more information visit: <a href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/node/1993" rel="nofollow">www.internationalrivers.org/node/1993</a> Photo by: Ryan Hoover