Dry Usangu Plain at Alert 1 Increasingly reduced spill water for boosting drainage Ruaha Park closing in on Alert 2 Update water abstraction and spill from Mbarali and Ruaha River outside rice irrigation season on September 12, 2024 August 23, 2024 spill/pre-irrigation at Kapunga Compare available water Usangu at Alert 1, 2024 The area withContinue reading “Dry Usangu Plain at Alert 1”
Category Archives: Kapunga Ifushiro LowFlow Diversion Spill
Early Irrigation Kapunga – Zero Flow Park HQ
Early Irrigation Kapunga – Zero Flow Park HQ Expansion pre-irrigation limited by low availability of water in Ruaha The very limited flow remaining in the Ruaha hampers the expansion of pre-irrigation in Kapunga and Mbarali. The pre-irrigation on November 27, 2023 in Kapunga Scheme, is indicated by green circles. The clouds in the NBR imageContinue reading “Early Irrigation Kapunga – Zero Flow Park HQ”
Early Irrigation Ruaha
The “Natural Color” image of the Kapunga – Ifushiro Area on May 31, 2023 is monitored for Out-Of-Season, early irrigation of rice. Dark fields which could indicate inundated rice fields without crop (pre-irrigation of rice) are analysed using different wavelength band combinations. The yellow arrows are most probably fields with pre-irrigation or leaking/unattended canals. TheContinue reading “Early Irrigation Ruaha”
Increased River Flow abstracted no overflow Ihefu
Increased River Flow abstracted no overflow Ihefu The considerable increase of irrigated area on January 2, 2023 as compared to the December 17, 2022 irrigated area is enabled by the first rains allowing more abstraction from the Mbarali and Ruaha Rivers (green and light blue colors in irrigated area). On the same day as theContinue reading “Increased River Flow abstracted no overflow Ihefu”