Who reduced Mulunguzi Dam to a vast wellspring?

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Who reduced Mulunguzi Dam to a vast wellspring?

From the winding road to Chawe Peak on Zomba Plateau, visitors marvel at the camera-ready Mulunguzi Dam, home to Malawi’s first hydropower plant until 2003. However, the superlatives from thrilled tourists and passersby quickly fade into a regretful probe among pensive pilgrims: Just how did the country reduce the vast dam on its second-tallest mountain to just providing potable water for its colonial capital? “With all that water and height, we…