{"id":222688,"date":"2026-02-03T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-major-dams-near-full-as-water-levels-surge-after-rains\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:08:34","slug":"zimbabwe-major-dams-near-full-as-water-levels-surge-after-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-major-dams-near-full-as-water-levels-surge-after-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Major Dams Near Full As Water Levels Surge After Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The country&#8217;s major dams are on average more than 90% full signalling one of the strongest water storage positions in recent years following sustained rainfall across much of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Figures released by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) show that national dam levels stood at an average of <strong>90.3% capacity as of 2 February 2026<\/strong> based on data ranked from the largest reservoirs to the smallest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Several of the country&#8217;s key dams are now <strong>100% full<\/strong> including Tugwi-Mukosi , Zimbabwe&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030094.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s major dams are on average more than 90% full signalling one of the strongest water storage positions in recent years following sustained rainfall across much of the country. Figures released by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) show that national dam levels stood at an average of 90.3% capacity as of 2 February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7037,10170,8029,7373,257,15767,254,10716,6722,4686,421],"class_list":["post-222688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dams","tag-full","tag-levels","tag-major","tag-news","tag-rains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge","tag-water","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222688","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=222688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}