[Civsoc-mw] Re RELEASING WATER

[John Lwanda]

John Lwanda http://pamtondo.com Where a little of Malawi meets the World in Scotland! 

    On Saturday, 24 March 2018, 06:21:58 GMT, mzeekachale <mzeekachale at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 


Sent from Samsung Mobile Thandika,releasing water may just be cosmetic short-termism.this release of the water will delay work on the barrage ... and the cycle will repeat in 4 months time.
.. am not an engineer but i passed by the barrage last weekjohn

-------- Original message --------
From: Thandika Mkandawire <thandika at GMAIL.COM> 
Date: 23/03/2018 15:49 (GMT+02:00) 
To: NYASANET at LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG 
Subject: [NYASANET] Releasing water 
 

Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development has opened up
Shire River at Kamuzu Barrage in Liwonde, Machinga to increase water flow for
Electricity Generation   Company (Egenco)
to boost power generation. The ministry' s Principal Secretary Grey Nyandule
Phiri said in an interview yesterday that on   March
17 2018 a technical committee comprising
government officials, engineers and  hydrologists
recommended increasing the flow of water in Shire River to allow
Egenco  generate
more power to avert the power shortage that the country has experienced lately.

Quite remarkably, the technical committee's recommendation
to increase the flow has seen Egenco increasing power generation to 200
megawatts (MW). This brings the total power generation to 275 MW, about 35MW
shy of the suppressed national requirement.  This increase is more
than what gensets have
brought in.



Why did it
take so long fpr technical committee to meet?





 http://mwnation.com/kamuzu-barrage-reopened-boost-power-generation/











The Ministry
Thandika Mkandawire

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