The flow of many waterfalls varies according to the season, and some have been reduced by building dams to harness their power for hydro-electric plants.
The flow of the Boyoma waterfall is equivalent to 17m. litres (36m. gall) a second –enough to fill more than 140,000 baths per second, or enough for every person on Earth to have two baths a day!
1 Boyoma (Stanley), Democratic Republic of Congo –17,000 m3/sec
2 Khone,Laos* –11,330 m3/sec
3 Niagra (Horseshoe), Canada –5,830 m3/sec
4 Grande, Uruguay –4,500 m3/sec
5 Paulo Afonso, Brazil –2,800 m3/sec
*Widest waterfall based on volume of water at 10.8 km
Comments
Post a Comment