Title
Status of River Breakages Along Juba and Shabelle Rivers - Issued February 2022
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Abstract

Three consecutive poor rainy seasons within the Juba and Shabelle River basins inside Somalia and the Ethiopian highlands have led to the current serious hydrological drought along the two rivers. The river levels in the upper sections are currently at their historical minimum, while the mid and lower sections of the Shabelle River having run dry. With no rains expected in February and most of March, the river flow will continue to decline. The reduced river flow along the two rivers has negatively impacted agriculture production, domestic and livestock water use. This has also led to an increase of new river breakages as the riverine communities attempt to extract the limited resource to support livelihood activities.

SWALIM has completed analysis and mapping of the river breakages along the two rivers using very high resolution satellite images acquired thanks to the kind contribution of the Embassy of France. The study has identified 101 open points along the Shabelle, out of which 24 points are new and the rest have remained open since the last survey in August 2021. Along the Juba River, 35 open points were identified out of which 5 are new points. During this drought period, it is expected that the riverine communities will continue to extract water from the rivers by breaching the banks and this will only see an increase of the open river bank points.

Several other weak points which are not necessarily open but have the potential to overflow or break were identified during the analysis. The summary of the different types of points mapped. This information and data set is also available in the SWALIM spatial database (https://spatial.faoswalim.org/layers/geonode:Shabelle_Juba_Breakages_Feb_2022).

Publication Date
Type
Vector Data
Keywords
february , river , somalia
Category
Water related datasets
Water related datasets. Examples: rivers, water resources, floods
Regions
Somalia
Owner
Group
Water Resources
More info
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Maintenance Frequency
Data Is Updated Twice Each Year
Language
English
Supplemental Information

It is worth noting that since the last survey in August 2021, several agencies including FAO have made efforts to close about 23 of the open river banks and...

Spatial Representation Type
vector data is used to represent geographic data

Layer WMS GetCapabilities document

Attribute Name Label Description
fid
Latitude
Longitude
Region
District
Settlement
LeftRight
Comment
Width_m
STATUS
Image_date
Verificatn
River

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