Mozambique and South Africa to discuss use of water resources

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Mozambique and South Africa to discuss use of water resources

11:36 CAT | 25 Nov 2022

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Mozambique and South Africa intend to discuss strategies to share the water resources of the two both countries in order to ensure and contribute to the welfare of their people.

For this purpose, according to the Maputo daily “Notícias”, the Mozambican Minister of Public Works, Carlos Mesquita, is expected on Thursday in South Africa, where he is due to meet with local authorities, including his South African counterpart, Sensu Mchunu.

The two countries share the Maputo, Incomati and Limpopo rivers.

The joint mobilization of funds in the scope of climate change and the establishment of a protocol for the exchange and sharing of data and information on water resources in the key river basins are some of the topics to be addressed.

With the same purpose, Mesquita was recently in Eswatini, country with which Mozambique is carrying out studies that will serve as a basis for the development of technical appendices, aiming at updating the 1976 Agreement regarding sharing the waters of the Umbelúzi River.

The activity is being carried out, thanks to a joint effort that resulted in the mobilization of about two million US dollars from Holland.

READ: South Africa wants equitable management of water resources shared with Mozambique

Source: AIM