In turn, depend on the conditions on which other Governments might lend Ghana money ... to supervise construction of the dam on behalf of the Volta River Authority (VRA). And in May 1960, the ...

Ghana will supply the power by building a $168 million dam on the Volta River. “It could mean to Ghana what TVA and the railroads meant to the U.S., coming all at once,” said one Washington ...

Heavy rains have significantly increased the volume of water in the two dams, and officials of the Volta River ... Akosombo dam was built in the 1960s, a project championed by Ghana's first ...

at Lakeside communities within the Volta Basin in the wake of the Akosombo Dam spillage. The river-borne tropical disease, known as bilharzia, holds a significant share in causes of infertility ...

To make space for Lake Volta, completed in 1965, communities were uprooted and relocated, while forests and farms were subsequently flooded, remnants of which still remain at the floor of the lake. It ...

The Volta River Authority (VRA) is the main generator and supplier of electricity in Ghana. The VRA was established by the Volta River Development Act, Act 46 of the Republic of Ghana on April 26 ...