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Ivory Coast normally has an energy surplus.
But a crippling drought has left it not only battling water shortages, but an energy crunch too, due to the impact on hydroelectricity production.
Today, households get power for just six hours a day and industrial customers 16 hours every two days. We have no water, Ladji Kone Vacaba, head of the Ayame dam in southeastern Ivory Coast, said bluntly. Water is the dam s raw material. Without water, we can t produce electricity.
Ivory Coast has been gripped by power cuts since April, when a crash at its main fossil-fuel plant combined with a drought that hit hydro-electric output.
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