Hydropower In Africa -
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Wed, Oct 23 1:30 P.M. NH World (11.3)  

Many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America aim to build hydroelectric projects, large and small, to bring electricity to their growing cities and power their economies. Join Dr. Scott Tinker in Ethiopia, at the construction site of Africa's largest dam, to understand the key issues of building hydro here and across the developing world.

Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 45 seconds

Episode Number: 104

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Scott Tinker on an unexpected journey -- in turns heartwarming, funny, eye-opening and unsettling to understand the benefits and challenges of bringing energy to more than 3 billion citizens of the developing world.

In this spectacular 6-part series, he'll cross Nepal with an environmental health scientist, studying people's transition from the most dangerous cooking fuel, killing millions a year, to the safest; visit Ethiopia's huge new hydroelectric dam and Kenya's largest slum, to see how Africa will power its people; venture into the ports and coal mines that support a growing Vietnam; and install a solar microgrid to bring electricity, for the first time ever, to the Arhuaco people of Colombia.

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