ZESCO director of power generation Wesley Lwiindi says the water reservoirs at Kariba North Bank and Kafue Gorge are extremely low and the only way to manage them is to implement load shedding. Speaking during a stakeholder engagement with farmers in Mazabuka, Monday, Lwiindi said the drought conditions being experienced in the country had affected water levels at the generation sites. “Based on this scenario, we need now to manage our generation so that we can ration the little water we have in our reservoirs. So, we are just quantifying how much ladshedding we can have so that see how we can go through to the end of the year. Hopefully, the change in El Nino will give us a...

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