Botswana: Namibia wants to dam the Okavango river in order to run a power plant. The sensitive ecosystem of the unique river delta faces a slow death as a result. The proposed power plant by the Popa waterfalls, just a few kilometres from the border with Botswana, would in fact only have a power output of 20 to 30 megawatts. Critics of the project find it particularly absurd that Namibia’s former South African occupiers already gave up their own plans for a dam back in 1969 - having found that the destruction of the Okavango delta would be out of all proportion to the amount of electricity they could expect to generate.