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Thousands of people and hundreds of businesses are taking the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority to court over the Katse and other dam projects ...
The R5.7 billion project will triple the dam’s capacity. Construction teams are working on the expansion of the Clanwilliam Dam to ensure they meet the project's 2028 completion deadline. Water ...
Fishers at Katse Dam in Lesotho's Highlands claim they have been beaten by officials policing the area on behalf of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA). The dam is part of the ...
SanLei Premium Trout, which farms trout on the Katse Dam in the Lesotho mountains, claims to have invested in projects to help the communities near the dam, whose livelihood is affected by ...
A water monitoring station on the Malibamatso River, which feeds into Katse, the largest of the LHWP’s dams. Information on river and dam sedimentation in Lesotho is hard to come by.
Rand Water supplies Gauteng with roughly 156 000 megalitres per month, or approximately 5.2 billion litres per day. The Katse Dam, on of the two feeder dams of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project ...
The Katse dam is a seriously impressive piece of design. Standing at 185m (600 feet) tall, it is Africa’s second largest curved dam. Completed in 1996, it forms part of the Lesotho Highlands ...
That is where Katse comes in. Water is funnelled out of the dam, entering a series of tunnels, that eventually takes it into the Vaal river system in South Africa.