Talk:Lake Volta

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"Two thousand fetishes" - What are fetishes?

I was wondering if anyone was thinking of adding a section about the lakes public health consequences.

When was the dam built?
Wikipedia's own page on the Akosombo Dam says, "It was built between 1961 and 1965." This page says, "The lake was formed in 1957 when the Akosombo Dam was built." Which is it? Egumtow 18:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

1961-1964 is correct
Quote from http://www.zef.de/fileadmin/webfiles/downloads/zef_dp/zef-dp21-00.pdf "The Akosombo Dam is an impressive engineering feat. It was built by Impregilo for a contract price of 16 million British Pounds (Mackintosh, 1965b). Begun in 1961, the dam was closed in 1964. It was built in three and three quarters years instead of the estimated four and a half. It is a rockfill dam with an impervious core. The embankment is 119 m high and 640 m long. The total embankment volume is 7,962,000 m³. On the left hand side of the river there is a small sloping core, rockfill, saddle dam with a total embankment volume of 555,400 m³ (Mackintosh, 1965a). The concrete structures comprise a diversion tunnel, intake structure, spillway, and power plant. The initial generating capacity at Akosombo was 512 MW. As of 1982, with completion of the Kpong Dam downstream of Akosombo, the combined generating capacity of the two plants is 1,060 MW."

Mackintosh, IB (1965a) Volta River Project – Akosombo Dam, Part One -- Design. Water Power Vol.17, No. 5. pp. 175-181 Mackintosh, IB (1965b) Volta River Project – Akosombo Dam, Part Two -- Construction. Water Power Vol.17, No. 6. pp. 240-246.


 * GOOD INFO!! Some of that should be in the lede (intro) section. Agree with other posters here, this article was not written by a specialist, key stuff is missing including elevations and depths.  The article reminds me of a natural lake, —it was discovered (or always was), and this is how people now have found ways to use it. (?) The lede should also have its purpose, such as hydroelectric, flood control, irrigation, domestic/drinking, or recreation; its reason for existence, what was it "sold" to the people as?  See also: MOS:LEAD and Millerton_Lake


 * It also smacks of propaganda, PR, or ad, for example it displaced tens of thousands, but only a few buildings were flooded, (the displaced population's homes and villages are devalued or worth zero). Generally reservoirs by nature are built over rich, highly productive (river bottom) land or ecosystem; —what was there before? (Nothing of value or interest?)   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:41A8:E805:53C7:6854 (talk) 21:58, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Volta lake
I believe that this lake is more commonly referred to as the Volta lake and not Lake Volta. Shouldn't the name reflect that?--Natsubee 13:17, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * How are big other lakes and water features named: Lake X or X Lake?   Tabletop (talk) 05:43, 28 October 2010 (UTC)


 * (Feature before name)
 * Lake Burragorang / Warragamba Dam ?
 * Lake Nasser / River Nile or Nile River, Egypt ?
 * Lake Mead / Hoover Dam ?
 * Lake Malawi
 * Lake Victoria
 * Lake Albert
 * Lake Tanganika
 * Lake Eire
 * Lake Michigan
 * Lake Van, Turkey
 * River Thames
 * River Danube


 * (Name before feature)
 * Gatun Lake / Panama Canal ?
 * Great Lakes ?
 * Murray River ?
 * Persian Gulf ?
 * Caspian Sea ?
 * Pacific Ocean ?

Child labour
According to a 2007 BBC documentary, children fishing the lake have often been sold by their parents to a master boatman. Shouldn`t the article at least link to this?Andycjp 02:28, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Fourth Largest Reservoir?
Which are the others? I couldn't find a list. Nicholasmorassutti (talk) 23:41, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * See List of reservoirs by volume. Herostratus (talk) 07:34, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Elevation
What is highest/lowest/typical elevation of Lake Volta above sea level? Tabletop (talk) 00:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

rather vague...
Hmmmm, don't think I have ever seen anything like this in a Wikipedia article: "...provides electricity for much of the country, and possibly for export, perhaps to Togo, Benin, and nearby countries..."

Well, does it or doesn't it? It seems that this is sort of the thing that would be knowable. Herostratus (talk) 07:31, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Is harvesting of dead underwater trees really sustainable?
''Recent developments include a large-scale enterprise to harvest submerged timber from the flooded forests under Lake Volta. This project harvests high-value tropical hardwood without requiring additional logging or destruction of existing forest and could generate the largest source of environmentally sustainable natural tropical hardwood in the world.'' He!ko (talk) 02:44, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

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The link supposedly to Pennwalt Chemical Corporation directs to page Total Petrochemicals USA, which article does not mention any relation to Pennwalt Chemical Corporation // — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.233.247.234 (talk) 06:18, 26 June 2022 (UTC)