Huge Electric Plant to Top Roof of Andes

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 10, 13 January 1936, Page 5

Huge Electric Plant to Top Roof of Andes

FAMOUS LAKE TITICACA TO BE TAPPED IN GIGANTIC SCHEME

Coupled with tho announcement oi an organisation of an expedition from Gamuridgo University, England, to study the basin of Banc Titicaca is another ox a “ large-scale, post-war reconstruction programme ” to include tapping the waters ox the famous lake to. a g gallic power scheme, for tin smelting, eiectr.xying ruiirunus and using tm surplus water lor irrigation. ITesidcnt Sorzano announced the power concession, involving fio,UOO,UUo auiltirs, and the lavoureu one was stilt ed to be Mauncio Uucliscniid, head o. tho firm of At. liochschild and Co., which has large mining interests at oo Ln America. Lake Titicaca is the highest large sheet of water m the worm, it has an elevation ox id,ooo xect aoovc sea ie\c. and covers and area of 3HUU square miles. As it is an intermtionai waterway, owned jo.ntiy by Bolivia ano Peru, the quosuu.i ui Bolivia’s right to drain water from tho lake has been

raised, jangineering experts, however, doubt whetner tne amount of water required for the power scheme wouia

woiuiy unect tne level oi me lake,

Great Depression.

Titicaca is actually a great depression in the Andes range, me lake being supplied with the rams and melting snows iron. l , surrounding peaks and highlands. it overflows its southern run into another depression. The lake waters are cold —too cold, it is averred, lor shore xolk to swim in. The water is also slightly brackish, but certain kinds of usn, eniefly of a coarse variety, are to 00. round tncre. A recent agreement between the Bolivian uni Peruvian Governments was aimed to increase the supply and improve tne variety of fish in the lake and to call in American exports lor advice. It is planned to establish a large fishing industry on the shores of the lake in benefit of the Indian population of both countries.