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Subject: New flood fear for Mozamibique/LS
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New Floods Feared in Mozambican Disaster Areas
Panafrican News Agency
September 25, 2000
Maputo
Meteorologists in southern Africa fear that, despite
predictions of normal rainfall in the forthcoming rainy season, areas hit
by floods early in
the year may suffer again because the soils remain waterlogged, reports
Monday's issue
of the daily paper, Noticias.
A meeting of the regional Weather Forecast Forum in Botswana last week warned
against this possibility in various areas of the southern African region.
The meeting recommended that weather information be widely publicised in
the entire
region.
"Some of the areas in the sub-region experienced floods during the last
rainy season and
in some of them soils are still waterlogged," the meeting said, adding that
despite
predictions of normal rainfall, "there is a risk of floods. On the other
hand, the areas that
experienced drought, in the north-east of the region, are not going to have
the same
situation."
The meeting also recommended monthly monitoring of the weather changes in
the various
countries of the region, and a further meeting will take place in December
to assess the
changes that will have occurred by then.
The participants also advised that all weather information be made
available to all
institutions dealing with disaster management, health, water supply, and
agriculture, in
order to allow the necessary planning of their activities.
Copyright _ 2000 Panafrican News Agency. Distributed by allAfrica.com. For
information about the content or for permission to redistribute, publish
or use for broadcast,
contact the publisher.
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Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
and Editor, World Rivers Review
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
Tel. (510) 848 1155 Fax (510) 848 1008
http://www.irn.org
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