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Exchange Irrigation Scheme is a 165 hectares (410 acres) [1] irrigated arable land in Zhombe Communal Land [2] [3] but in Silobela Constituency in Kwekwe District of the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. It is 37 km (23 mi) southwest of Zhombe Joel, 83 km (52 mi) northwest of Kwekwe and 25 km (16 mi) north of Crossroads DSC.
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country and therefore its major water supplies are lakes, rivers, and aquifers. The two major rivers in Zimbabwe are the Zambezi River in the north, and the Limpopo River in the south. Several other rivers with significant watershed areas that flow through Zimbabwe are the Save, Manyame, and Sanyati Rivers.
Since 1980, the District Development Fund (DDF) has been responsible for establishing all-weather road access throughout the rural areas of Zimbabwe.DDF has implemented the planning, selection; construction and/or re-construction and the establishment of proper periodic and routine maintenance for an estimated 25,000 km of rural roads throughout Zimbabwe.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2009) Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The following is a partial list of dams in Zimbabwe. List of dams (reservoirs) Name (alt.) Nearest local Province Impounds Year completed (commissioned) Capacity (MegaL) Map ...
Ngondoma Irrigation Scheme draws water from Ngondoma Dam, which has an estimated capacity of 7.5 million cubic metres. It is the 40th of the 41 recorded by FAO as Major Dams in Zimbabwe. [3] Ngongoma Irrigation Scheme has a gravity fed surface irrigation system. [1]
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority is a state-owned company, which was formed in 2000 guided by the terms of the ZINWA Act (Chapter 20:25). ZINWA falls under the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement.
Mutange Dam is in Zimbabwe's Agro-Ecological Region, where the average annual rainfall is 550 mm. Irrigation is therefore a critical investment in the area. Mutange Dam's immediate major beneficiary is the Mutange Irrigation Scheme. Pumping and conveyance systems at Mutange Dam connects the irrigation scheme by a pipeline running 1,500 m to the ...
Osborne Dam is an earth embankment dam, creating a reservoir with a surface area of 2,600 hectares, storing 400,000 megalitres on the Odzi River, a tributary of the Save River, in Zimbabwe The catchment area is 1,392 km² the embankment is 66 metres high, crest length 1,007 metres and the volume of earth in the embankment is 5.1 million cubic metres.