The claims were sparked by a YouTube video showing a long stretch of bare cliff-face at Livingstone, on the Zambian side of the world's largest waterfall, in which a woman says she is praying for rain.
However, the video and subsequent media reports downplayed the seasonal dry period which affects the water flow every year, as well as the fact that the Zimbabwean side of the waterfall has been faring much better.It led to some social media users responding with photos and videos as evidence that the situation at Victoria Falls, while troubling, had been exaggerated and offered an incomplete picture.
In fact, the volumes of water crashing through the Unesco World Heritage Site are typically affected by seasonal rainfall, and there have already been signs of improvement since the YouTube video was posted in September. The Zambezi River Authority shares daily data on flow measurements taken at the Falls, a key station on the river.And while the water flow this November did reach lows not seen since 1995, measurements on December 2 had increased during the week under review, closing at 227 cubic metres per second.Shelley Cox, co-founder of sustainable travel agency Africa Conservation Travel, gave AFP a live tour of Victoria Falls using a WhatsApp video call on December 4, to show that water was flowing.
We have enough water this report is pushing to spend 900 billion on trash systems.
Times lives where is the proof, this is lies
They are smoking evil things 😂😂
Victoria Falls ran dry It's only picking up now this news is outdated
africaupdates Plant trees around
Lies and damn lies
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Maybe if they participated in saving a train campaign it was going to be full...bridges are burning and tables are turning topsy-turvy
So this rain recently didn't make any difference?
Livingstonehous We don't know when the photo was taken. Photos prove little, even when authentic. It is what we choose to see or believe that matters. photography photo
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