Climate changes

Climate change and potential impacts

Climate changes

Climate changes Affected Areas Specific Areas of Concern Strategic Actions in the Water Resources Management Area to Minimize Impacts
Increase in the Occurrence and Intensity of Floods
Potential loss of human life, livestock and their movement
Maputo, Incomáti, Limpopo, Save, Búzi, Pungoe and Zambezi Basins
  • Early warning systems
  • Protective infrastructures
  • Improve settlement planning
  • Storage systems for flood storage
Potential losses of biodiversity, crops and soil degradation
  • Protection infrastructures
  • Storage systems for flood control and runoff regulation
Potential losses of social and economic infrastructure
  • Improve infrastructure planning
  • Protective infrastructures
  • Storage systems for flood control and runoff regulation
Increased Occurrence and Intensity of Droughts
Unavailability of water for basic needs and for economic sectors
Southern region in particular
  • Storage systems to ensure minimum water availability during periods of scarcity
  • Early warning systems combined with demand management measures
Negative impacts on agricultural production and food security
  • Early warning systems combined with demand management
  • Storage systems for storing water to ensure availability during periods of scarcity
Potential losses of livestock, biodiversity and soil degradation
  • Early warning systems
  • Storage systems for flow regulation
Increased Occurrence of Tropical Cyclones
Potential losses of human life, agricultural production and social and economic infrastructure
In coastal areas in particular
  • Early warning systems
Sea Level Rise
Potential degradation of water quality due to saline intrusion, soil degradation, erosion, loss of biodiversity and loss of social and economic infrastructure
In coastal areas and in particular in the Ligonha, Zambezi, Búzi, Pungoe, Save, Limpopo, Incomati and Maputo basins
  • Improve land use planning
  • Protection infrastructures
  • Storage infrastructures for flow regulation
  • Data source
Water Sector Action Plan for Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 2015-2030, Volume 1 – Water Document Management
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