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DM (File photo) / Pequenos Libombos dam
The Southern Regional Water Administration (ARA-SUL) may close the floodgates of the Pequenos Libombos dam in Maputo province at any moment.
Agostinho Vilanculos, head of the Department of Management of Hydrographic Basins in the Southern Region, said this would increase water storage in the next rainy season to supply the the cities of Maputo and Matola and the village of Boane, which have been under restrictions.
While the floodgates were closed, a tributary of the Movene River in the Namaacha district would supply water to the Umbelúzi Treatment Station for subsequent distribution.
Vilanculos said that the Pequenos Libombos dam situation was still critical, but with rainfall form October on it could fill up to about 50 percent. Dams in Corumane in Maputo province and Cahora Bassa in Tete might receive more water and reach levels of 50 to 100 percent, but without risk of flooding.
The forecast is for average to below normal rainfall in the south and centre of the country over the next three months.
In the first quarter of 2018, rainfall is expected to be above normal, but without the risk of flooding in the northern part of the provinces of Gaza and Inhambane and the south of Niassa and Nampula.
Concerning rivers and river basins, there is a low risk of moderate floods in the next quarter, with the exception of the Maputo, Inhanombe, Incomati, Mutanba and Govuro river basins in the south of the country.
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