The municipality of Maputo is removing rainwater from flooded neighbourhoods using industrial motor pumps. The municipality has bought four industrial machines to help the population, which has in many cases been forced to leave their homes.
More than 20,000 people are suffering the impacts of the rains that fell last week in Maputo city and have had their homes flooded. The situation has forced the mayor of the Mozambican capital, Razaque Manhique, to adopt urgent measures.
“As an immediate measure we bought these four industrial motor pumps and decided to come and test [the equipment] because this is the solution to remove the water and relieve the population around this flooded area,” he said.
The residents of the Magoanine neighbourhood, where the process of absorbing the water using motor pumps has already begun, are demanding more measures, as Jaime Jane, a resident of the Magoanine neighbourhood, explains: “We really need to create ditches or drainage because otherwise this situation will continue.”
A week after the rains that battered the southern region of Mozambique, entire neighbourhoods are still under water in the country’s capital.
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