(ZNBC) The water levels at the Kariba Dam have continued reducing and are now lower than they were last year on this day.
As of this morning, the Zambezi River Authority -ZRA recorded the lake level at 476 meters with six billion cubic meters of storage usable water.
This is a reduction from 479 meters and 20 billion cubic meters of storage usable water recoded on the same day last year.
ZRA Chief Executive Officer Munyaradzi Munodawafa says today’s recorded lake level places the lake at one point three meters above the Minimum Operating Level of 475 meters.
Mr Munodawafa says the lake levels are expected to start rising in the first quarter of 2023 if the flow of water recorded at Chavuma District in North Western Province is sustained.
He says the reduction of water levels in the Kariba Dam is due to the hydrological pattern during the last quarter of the year which normally records reduced river flows owing to the close of the rainfall season.
This is according to a statement issued by Zambezi River Authority Public Relations and Communications Officer Fitzgerald Muchindu.