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Vaal
Vaal (Lekoa): main tributary of South Africa's Orange River, about 1,300 km long, draining the central highveld; supplies Gauteng via the Vaal Dam, Barrage, and Lesotho Highlands transfers.
Volta
Volta: West African river system, 1,850 km long, draining a 400,000 km2 basin shared by Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and Togo; dammed at Akosombo in 1963-1964, creating Lake Volta and a major fishery.
Western Orange
Western Orange (FEOW ecoregion 572) is a freshwater ecoregion of southern Namibia and northern South Africa covering the lower Orange River below the Vaal confluence, with Augrabies Falls as its only natural fish barrier and a largely xeric, impoverished fauna.
White Nile
The White Nile is the longer Nile tributary, rising at Lake Victoria and flowing through the Sudd wetlands to join the Blue Nile at Khartoum, contributing about 28% of Nile discharge with steady year-round flow.
White Volta
White Volta (Nakanbé in Burkina Faso), a 660 km river rising in Burkina Faso and flowing through northern Ghana to the Volta Reservoir; basin 92,880–107,417 km², September flood peak, Bagre Dam spillage flooding, major tributaries Red Volta, Kulpawn, Nasia.