Aerial view, extreme long shot, looking down as the Limpopo River winds its way through Southern Mozambique, where it recently crested its banks and sent floodwaters rushing through towns and farmland, forcing people from their homes and wreaking havoc with the countries infrastructure. Even though waters have receded over the past week, heavy rains seen in the distance, continue to threaten the region with more flooding. C-130 aircraft (not shown), assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, fly daily Keen Sage aerial surveillance missions over Mozambique to help find stranded flood victims and survey flood levels and damage caused by the flooding in Southern Africa. The 37th Airlift Squadron C-130 aircraft, are deployed to Hoedspruit Air Force Base, South Africa, as part of the United States Operation Atlas Response, humanitarian relief efforts.
831122 E – MOZAMBIQUE AND SOUTH AFRICA TO DISCUSS USE OF WATER RESOURCES
Maputo, 24 Nov (AIM) – 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.
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