The Ruaha Flow Monitor accumulates a wealth of freely available georeferenced images.

By searching on key locations along the Ruaha and Mbarali Rivers and other flow flow features, categories and dates historical images can be found and copied.

While this database gradually developes, the annual flow monitor cycles are archived.

The low flow status during the critical dry season of the Ruaha River for 2023 2022 are now available.

Interestingly the flow at the Ruaha Park HQ in both years returned and ended the zero flow spell, as a result of local rains in the Park rather than the onset of the seasonal rains in the upper reaches of the Ruaha. The image of January 11, 2024 shows the dry Ruaha River on that date from the south while the flow in the river downstream originates from the Jongomera coming from the North (Local Rains).

Apparently local rains in the Park may shorten the zero flow period which would otherwise have lasted one to three weeks longer due to the start of rice pre-irrigation at Usangu Plains before the onset of the seasonal storms in the upper reaches of the Ruaha and Mbarali Rivers, those years.