Mozambique: Dams near water storage peak but no basins at alert level – A Verdade

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Mozambique: Dams near water storage peak but no basins at alert level – A Verdade

3:50 CAT | 14 Nov 2022

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: A Verdade]

About one month since the start of the 2022-23 rainy season in Mozambique, the country’s main dams are close to their full storage level, but no watersheds are at alert level, and only in the Maputo and Zambezi rivers are runoffs significant.

For a period during which meteorologists predicted “normal rainfall with a tendency to above normal for the provinces of Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Manica, Sofala and some districts in the south of Tete and Zambézia provinces”, the 1st Hydrological Bulletin reveals that Mozambique’s main dams are close to their full storage levels.

“In the Northern region, the reservoirs of Nampula, Nacala and Chipembe record fillings of 58.50 percent, 94.02 percent and 52.81 percent, respectively. In the Central region, the reservoirs of Cahora Bassa and Muda register fillings of 86.41 percent and 72.13 percent. In the southern region, the Pequenos Libombos, Corumana and Massingir reservoirs are at 79.33 percent, 54.54 percent and 66.25 percent” of capacity, the National Directorate for Water Resources Management document reads.

The bulletin also indicates the levels in the reservoirs of neighbouring countries, namely 86.80 percent in the Limpopo; 78.90 percent in Olifants; 90.56 percent in Incomati; 82.60 percent in the Maputo rivers; eight percent in the Zambezi, Kariba; and 26 percent in Kafue Gorge Upper.

By Adérito Caldeira

Source: A Verdade