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Corumana dam (O País)
A US$250 million (EUR 215 million) rehabilitation of the Corumana dam will give Maputo an additional 60,000 cubic metres of water per day, an official source has said.
“The project will take approximately 20 months, and the World Bank is one of the main funders,” João Machatine, Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, said during a visit to the dam.
The work on the Corumana dam in Moamba in the north of Maputo province will increase storage capacity, improve the water treatment system and enlarge the floodgates, Machatine said.
“Over this period, if we do not have deviations arising from the work itself, everything will go according to plan,” he added.
The rehabilitation will increase the storage capacity of the dam from 720,000 thousand cubic metres to about one million cubic metres.
The cities of Maputo and Matola and the town of Boane in southern Mozambique have faced water supply restrictions recently due to low levels in the Pequenos Libombos Dam, following poor rainfall in the 2017-2018 rainy season and a prolonged drought the previous year.
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