- Title
- Map of Status of River Breakages Along Juba River - Issued August 2022
- Abstract
Four consecutive poor rainy seasons in most parts of the Horn of Africa region have resulted to current serious hydrological drought conditions in Somalia and neighboring countries.. Juba and Shabelle Rivers, with the headwaters in the Ethiopian highlands have remained below the long term average since the beginning of 2022, negatively impacting agriculture production, domestic and livestock water use for the riverine communities. The low river levels however provide an opportunity to fix the river breakages and weak embankments, ahead of the next rainy season.
SWALIM has updated the status of the river breakages along the Juba and Shabelle Rivers using available Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery and a Digital Elevation Model (DEM).
Five types of breakages have been identified, namely; open, overflow, potential overflows, potential breakages and closed with sandbags. The open breakages are those that are currently open as observed on the latest VHR image a...
- License
- Not Specified
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- Publication Date
- Aug. 30, 2022, 8:19 a.m.
- Category
- Water related datasets
- Water related datasets. Examples: rivers, water resources, floods
- Regions
- Somalia
- Approved
- Yes
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- Group
- Water Resources
- Name
- FAO SWALIM (admin)
- swalim@fao.org
- Position
- GIS/RS Team
- Organization
- FAO Somalia
- Location
- 00100 Nairobi KEN
- Voice
- +254203000300
- Fax
- None
- Spatial Extent
- ---
- Projection System
- EPSG:4326
- Extension x0
- 42.068088531494100
- Extension x1
- 45.678672790527300
- Extension y0
- -0.070970006287098
- Extension y1
- 4.892940044403080
- Maintenance Frequency
- Data Is Repeatedly And Frequently Updated
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
No information provided
- Name
- FAO SWALIM (admin)
- swalim@fao.org
- Position
- GIS/RS Team
- Organization
- FAO Somalia
- Location
- 00100 Nairobi KEN
- Voice
- +254203000300
- Fax
- None
- Link Online
- /documents/919
- Metadata Page
- /documents/919/metadata_detail
- Name
- FAO SWALIM (admin)
- swalim@fao.org
- Position
- GIS/RS Team
- Organization
- FAO Somalia
- Location
- 00100 Nairobi KEN
- Voice
- +254203000300
- Fax
- None