10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOLTA RIVER DAM»
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Dams and Disease: Ecological Design and Health Impacts of ...
12. Volta. River. The Volta River Basin in West Africa drains 400 000 km2 toward
the south, to Lake Volta, reaching the coast at Ada in southeastern Ghana near
the Togo border (Figure 12.1). The basin also covers most of the country of ...
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Kwame Nkrumah's Liberation Thought: A Paradigm for Religious ...
9 Moreover, Busia expressed his disapproval of the U.S. aid for the Volta River
Dam. He testified, "First ... I say that the Volta River Project was premature" (it was
Busia who in 1955 said that Ghana's independence was premature), and gave ...
3
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World
3 Aswan's specter loomed over the Kennedy administration's consideration of
Ghana's request for assistance with the Volta River Dam. Analogies to Aswan
flowed freely in the months preceding the decision. During a conversation with ...
The main objective of the Volta River Dam was to produce electricity for the
manufacture of aluminium. To this end, the project displaced 64 000 people. The
Ghanaian government found itself unable to build all the offices, recreational
facilities ...
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Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems
Volts from the Volta River (Ghana) The Volta River dam creating Lake Volta in
southern Ghana (Figure 5.13) was built in the early 1960's to provide power for
the production of aluminum. The river drains almost all of Ghana as well as larger
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American Society of Civil Engineers, Unesco/IHP-IV Project M-4.3
The pit is part of Ghana's $210 million Volta River dam project, whose scheduled
completion in 1966 will give Ghana urgently needed cheap electricity. Once the
harnessed Volta River begins its chores, Ghana will have power not only to ...
7
Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 2: Themes from ...
... in such areas as hydrobiology, public health, and shoreline agriculture. The
river basin represents about 67 percent of the Ghanaian surface area. According
to Futa, most known suitable Volta River dam sites are in Ghana or on its borders.
Robert W. Kates, Ian Burton, 1986
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Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems
Volts from the Volta River (Ghana) The Volta River dam creating Lake Volta in
southern Ghana (Figure 5.13) was built in the early 1960s to provide power for
the production of aluminum. The river drains almost all of Ghana as well as larger
...
Daniel P. Loucks, John S. Gladwell, 1999
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Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations
VOLTA RIVER DAM. Ghanaian dam known locally as the Ako- sombo Dam that
was part of an industrial complex that included hydroelectric power and
aluminum smelting. It was built with funding by the United States, Great Britain,
and the ...
Robert Anthony Waters Jr., 2009
10
Human Ecology As Human Behavior: Essays in Environmental and ...
If the Volta River dam in Ghana, the Kainji Lake Basin scheme in Nigeria, and the
Aswan project in Egypt are added to the record, a total of 275,000 Africans during
the 1960s and 1970s had to be relocated to new environments.65 In no case ...
