THE floodwaters that have driven tens of thousands of people from their homes
in Mozambique are a “human-induced tragedy”, hydrologists are claiming. People
are having to flee a surge of water flowing towards the Indian Ocean after heavy
rains. But the crisis has been exacerbated by two giant hydroelectric dams on
the Zambezi river upstream of the flooded area, says Bryan Davies of the
University of Cape Town in South Africa.
The amount of water flowing down the river is no greater than the volume that
flowed before the two dams were built. It “is about equal to the historical…
