![]() ![]() The Story of Ghana's Akosombo Dam, London, U.K. Moxon, J.: 1984, Volta, Man's Greatest Lake. Kumi, E.N.: 1973, 'Environmental Effects of the Volta River Projec t', Onzeieme Congress des Grands Barrages, Madrid. Hart, N.: 1980, 'The Volta River Project: A case study in Politics and Technolog y', Edinburgh, U. andTumbulto, J.W.: 2000, 'The Volta Lake and Declining Rainfall and Streamflows in the Volta River Basi n', Environment, Development and Sustainability, Vol. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the Ghana Science Association, Accra.ĭe-Heer Amissah, A.N.: 1969, 'Some possible climatic changes by the Volta lake: Man made Lake s'. de Graft-Johnson, K.A.A.: 1980, 'Weeds infestation in some impounded water bodies in Ghana'. andKouamé, B.: 1996, 'Analysis of the temporal variability of runoff in Ivory Coast: Statistical approach and phenomena characterization', Hydrol. Similarly, a plot of the mean annual temperatures for the upper Volta basin indicated a 1^C rise in temperature from 1945–1993.Ībrokwa-Ampadu, R.: 1984, 'The Volta River Hydro-Electric Project in Ghana Hydro-Environmental Indices: A Review and Evaluation of their use in the Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of Water Project s', UNESCO, Paris, 1984.Īka, A.,Lubès, H.,Masson, J.M.,Servat, E.,Paturel, J.E. Comparisons of the runoff from two most important tributaries of the Volta (White Volta and Oti) for two time periods of 1951–19–1990 showed reductions in mean streamflows of 23.1% on the White Volta and 32.5% on the Oti. Recently, there have been declines in the lake levels resulting most probably from inadequate rainfall and/or runoff from the river catchments that feed the lake, and also from the observed rising temperatures. However, there are equally negative impacts, some of which the project did not envisage and these are felt on the physical, biological and human subsystems within the immediate project environments and places much more distant from them. Other positive impacts of the HEP include fishing, farming, transportation and tourism. The Akosombo hydroelectric project (HEP) was meant among others to open up Ghana to rapid industrialization and hence modern development. It produces 912 MW of electricity at its maximum operating capacity. The resultant Volta lake which was formed between 19 in Ghana will probably long be one of the greatest man-made lakes. The Akosombo dam was constructed on the Volta river primarily for the generation of hydropower. ![]()
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