{"id":195815,"date":"2025-04-10T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-flowing-rivers-fill-southern-dams\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:02:20","slug":"namibia-flowing-rivers-fill-southern-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-flowing-rivers-fill-southern-dams\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Flowing Rivers Fill Southern Dams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>Two of Namibia&#8217;s three largest dams have reached their full storage capacities this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Namibia Water Corporation (NamWater) announced yesterday that water was being released from the Naute Dam south-west of Keetmanshoop, which is the third-largest surface water reservoir in Namibia, with the dam reaching a level of 107.3% yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">NamWater also announced on a social media account that the Neckartal Dam on the Fish River west of Keetmanshoop started to run over during Monday night&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504100572.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Namibia&#8217;s three largest dams have reached their full storage capacities this week. The Namibia Water Corporation (NamWater) announced yesterday that water was being released from the Naute Dam south-west of Keetmanshoop, which is the third-largest surface water reservoir in Namibia, with the dam reaching a level of 107.3% yesterday morning. NamWater also announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7037,21370,16625,4706,724,257,7865,254,7153],"class_list":["post-195815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dams","tag-fill","tag-flowing","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rivers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}