Dam levels remain critical Several of Namibia's dams, including the Von Bach Dam, have received inflow following rain in the past week. During the past week NamWater has measured an inflow of more than 10.6 million cubic metres of water.
The bulk of the inflow was recorded at Namibia's largest reservoir, the Hardap Dam at Mariental.
The Von Bach Dam, which is currently the only dam supplying Windhoek with water, received 0.243 million cubic metres of water. That resulted in the dam level rising from 6.3% last week to 6.4%, according to the latest dam bulletin released yesterday.
The other two supply dams to central Namibia - Omatako and Swakoppoort - did not receive any inflow. Their levels are 1.1% and 5.9% respectively.
The total capacity of storage dams in central Namibia is now 6.4%, compared to 13.6% at the same time last year.
The Hardap Dam received inflow of 8.815 million cubic metres, raising its level from 26.7% to 29.7%.
The Naute Dam near Keetmanshoop received inflow of 1.734 million cubic metres, which pushed its level from 68.7% to 70.8%.
The Dreihuk Dam, which was empty, received 0.320 million cubic metres of water and the level currently stands at 2.1%. Currently the total level of Namibia's dams stands at 26.2% of their capacity. This is up from 24.6% last week, but still much less than last year, when the dams were 32% full.
Meanwhile, the weather bureau predicts that it will be partly cloudy and hot to very hot with scattered thundershowers over the northeast and east.
ELLANIE SMIT