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3.28.4 Monitoring systems
None.
3.28.5 Water quality data
None.
3.28.6 Implications for water quality and quantity management
None, unless coal exploration or mining is begun.
3.29 The Sanyati-Munyati sub-catchment
3.29.1 General description
3.29.1.1 Hydrology
This is Zones S, UN1-UN6 and US of Area C (ZSG, 1984). The large Sanyati-Munyati Sub-catchment stretches
from Lake Kariba to the Midlands towns of Kwekwe and Kadoma and to Chivhu in Mashonaland East (Figure
3.2). The Sanyati River is referred to as Munyati above the confluence with the tributary Mupfure (see Section
3.10). The main tributaries of the Munyati are the Msweswe (Zone US of Area C in ZSG (1984) and the
Sebakwe (Zone UN3 and UN4 of Area C in ZSG (1984)). All these rivers are perennial.
The Sebakwe is dammed at Sebakwe and Lower Zhivagwe (Dutchman’s Pool) to provide water for the City of
Kwekwe. The Ngezi, a tributary of the Upper Munyati (Zone UN5 of Area C in ZSG (1984), is dammed to
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