Landowners reserve rights to private dams

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Corporate communications manager at Water Utilities Corporation (WUC), Matida Mmipi has said that private landowners along the catchment area of the Gaborone Dam have a right to water and do not necessarily have to inform the WUC of any developments.

“You will note that these are small private dams on private and communal land and it is not a pre-requisite for them to inform WUC when they undertake the construction of such,” she said.

The WUC and the Department of Water Affairs have distanced themselves from the responsibility of licensing private dams along Gaborone dam catchment area, which have been suspected of holding water from the national dam.

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