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Drought is parching the world's largest man-made lake, stripping Zambia of its electricity.
Drought has left the critical Kariba dam with insufficient water to run its hydroelectric turbines.
Zambians have barely a few hours of power a day at the best of times.
Less than half of Zambia 's 20 million people had access to electricity before the problems.
At Kariba , the 128-meter -high ( 420-feet ) dam wall is almost completely exposed.
The lake's water level naturally rises and recedes according to the season , but generally it should go up by around six meters after the rains.
Experts say there's also no guarantee those rains will come and it's dangerous to rely on a changing climate.
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