MAIN Reservoirs Have Enough Water Until Next Rainy Season

Maputo, 11 May (AIM) – The National Directorate of Water Resource Management (DNGRH) has guaranteed that the main Mozambican reservoirs have enough water to meet the demand until the next rainy season.

The reservoirs are currently, on average, about 70 per cent full. “The Chipembe, Nampula and Nacala reservoirs, in the north of the country, are 100 per cent full”, said Agostinho Vilanculos, head of Water Resources in the Ministry of Public Works, cited in Thursday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Notícias.”

The level of the reservoir behind the Cahora Bassa dam, on the Zambezi river, in Tete province is now 98 per cent, while the level of the Chicamba dam, on the Revue river, in Manica, is 75 per cent.

In the south of the country the reservoirs behind the Pequenos Libombos, Corumana and Massingir dams, currently stand at 93, 77 and 76 per cent of capacity respectively.

Vilanculos said the levels of many of the country’s main rivers are oscillating, and tending to fall (as would be expected, since the 2022-2023 rainy season is now over).

Among the rivers whose levels are falling are the Zambezi, the Buzi, the Pungoe and the Licungo in the centre of the country, and the Limpopo, the Incomati, the Umbeluzi, the Maputo and the Save in the southern provinces.
(AIM)
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