NamWater recorded positive inflows into key dams across the country for the first week of March.
Recent rainfall contributed to improved water levels across the Swakoppoort, Von Bach, Omatako, and Omatjenne dams, offering a welcome boost to Namibia's water storage capacity.
Farmers at the Hardap Irrigation Scheme have asked NamWater to restore water supply to their irrigation fields, as the Hardap Dam received water inflow following rains in its catchment areas.
The drought conditions plaguing farmers across the country also affect Hardap Irrigation Scheme farmers, who have had water supply to their irrigation plots suspended this week.
This is due to critically low water levels in the Hardap Dam.
The Namibian government plans to launch the Namibia Trade Policy to calibrate economic sector competitiveness.
Workers of the Gobabis Municipality staged a demonstration demanding that the council investigate financial status, progress on capital projects, maladministration, lack of good governance, favouritism, and unfair labour practices affecting development at Gobabis.
Keetmanshoop Mayor McDonald Hanse thanked the town's residents for "a commendable display of responsibility to settle their municipal accounts."
NamWater is calling on residents of central Namibia to use water sparingly as the area is facing a serious water shortage.
Currently, the central area of Namibia gets its water supply from the Omatako, Von Bach, and Swakoppoort dams.
The leader of the Landless Peoples Movement (LPM), Bernadus Swartbooi, is convinced that the town council of Rundu can improve its infrastructure, despite outstanding debt by residents running into millions of dollars.
He said this at an LPM rally at Rundu.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform's (MAWLR) head of rural water supply and sanitation in Oshikoto, Stevenson Tuukondjele, said that by the look of things, they might experience water crises worse than last year.
NamWater is set to discontinue releasing water for irrigation in the Hardap Irrigation Scheme if limited water inflow into the Hardap Dam persists.
In the wake of poor rainfall in its catchment area, the dam's water level stood at 12.8% on Tuesday.
