Qualla: Tono Dam https://qualla.com/tono-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tono Dam https://qualla.com/tono-dam Tono Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/tono-dam/ From the air, the Tono reservoir appears as a startling blue interruption in the dry brown landscape of Ghana's Upper East Region. Two kilometers of earthen dam hold back enough water to irrigate nearly 2,500 hectares of farmland year-round in a region where rain falls for only a few months. The Tono Dam is not a marvel of engineering spectacle -- there are no soaring concrete walls, no dramatic spillways. Its power lies in what it does quietly: it turned one of the poorest, most food-insecure corners of West Africa into a place where rice, tomatoes, and soybeans grow in every season.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/z/j/tono-dam-wp/eczj-tono-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tono Dam: A Decade in the Building https://qualla.com/tono-dam/ Construction began in 1975, when the Ghana government commissioned Taysec, a British engineering company, to build a dam that would break the region's dependence on seasonal rainfall. The Kassena-Nankana District, stretching across the flat savanna south of the Burkina Faso borde...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/z/j/tono-dam-wp/eczj-tono-dam-a-decade-in-the-building.mp3 0:06 2 full Tono Dam: Water in Every Season https://qualla.com/tono-dam/ The dam's impact was transformative. Seven communities that had depended on a single growing season suddenly had water year-round. Rice became the dominant crop -- by recent estimates, it covers roughly 98 percent of the irrigated land -- but farmers also grow tomatoes, soybeans,...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/z/j/tono-dam-wp/eczj-tono-dam-water-in-every-season.mp3 0:06 3 full Tono Dam: The Lake and Its Uninvited Guest https://qualla.com/tono-dam/ Behind the dam, an artificial lake formed that became something the engineers had not planned for: a bird habitat. The reservoir's shallow margins and seasonal water-level fluctuations created conditions that attracted wading birds and waterfowl, adding an ecological dimension to...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/z/j/tono-dam-wp/eczj-tono-dam-the-lake-and-its-uninvited-guest.mp3 0:06 4 full Tono Dam: Rehabilitation and the Rice Economy https://qualla.com/tono-dam/ By 2008, decades of use had degraded the main canal's concrete lining, and the Ghana government undertook rehabilitation with funding from the World Bank and USAID through the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project. The investment reflected the dam's continued strategic importance:...

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