There are quite a number of small dams that can be used for irrigation though at a smaller scale.This sub-catchment is the smallest in Runde catchment. An assessment of the socio-economic impacts of the construction of Siya dam in the Mazungunye area: Bikita district of Zimbabwe. Siya Dam can rescue Bikita, Zaka — MP The Herald (Zimbabwe) - 2020-03-02 - National - Sydney Mubaiwa in ZAKA.
This dam located in ET2 under Chivi district. However, Manjirenji Dam has significant level of 58%, Siya with 55%, Manyuchi with 50% and Nyajena with 86%.
This dam located on the northern part of Mashava area of Chivi District This dam was built to augment the Tokwane dam, which could not supply the lowveld with enough water. Nyatare dam irrigates about 25 hectares at the moment while some water is used to supply water to Zaka and Jerera. About 4,433hectares can be irrigated by the water from Muzhwi dam. He made the remarks last week at an integrated environment programme which was officiated by First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa at Chemvuu Dam.Cde Svuure said Zaka had a lot of investment opportunities like irrigation based farming, tourism and infrastructure development.Zaka Central legislator Cde Davison Svuure exhorted Government and its development partners to facilitate the full utilisation of water in Siya Dam, which is partially being used to irrigate sugar cane fields, some kilometres away.“We need to have a serious self-introspection as members of the community and identify areas where we have potential and where we are getting it wrong to achieve our goals,” he said. This dam was built with a full supply capacity of 2,597ML and a 10% yield of 1,929ML. This dam located in EL2 was meant to supply water to Lundi Rural service center, Lundi mission, Rhino Park Motel and the surrounding villages and schools.
It’s very disappointing that Siya Dam only benefits people in Zaka.’ (Male, 68, community member) The Mazungunye community is heavily dependent on rain-fed agriculture, which continues to deteriorate year by year, and this is making it very difficult for the community members to mitigate the effects of climate change. Though it might look like the dam is under utilized it should be noted that not all water users are registered. By Garikai Mafirakureva According to the dam level statistics provided by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa), over half of the … Levels at the dam, which produces a combined 1 625MW of power on both the south and north banks, serving Zimbabwe and neighbours Zambia respectively, were earlier projected to be less, but gained significantly after unexpected floods upstream of the Zambezi River catchment. No further developments are expected from this source.This dam was built with a full supply capacity of 22,583ML and a 10% yield of 6,044ML. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington DC.