Saturday, December 7, 2019

Victoria Falls Now Just a Trickle of Water



Water levels at Victoria Falls are at the lowest level in 25 years, according to Metro UK. Elisha Moyo, the chief climate change researcher for Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Environment, Climate and Tourism, told the BBC that the average amount of water flowing over the falls this year is down by nearly 50 percent.

"The low falls are becoming more frequent," Moyo said. "Who knows maybe one year there will be no falls completely, no water." Moyo, like Zambian President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, points to climate change as the culprit behind the falls being nearly dried up.

Back in October, Lungu fired a warning shot on Twitter, posting photos of the barren falls and declaring the images are a "stark reminder of what climate change is doing to our environment and our livelihood." 
This is what tourists expect, not the dried out trickle that they will see this year.


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