Maun legend is fast approaching

MAUN: Yesterday (Thursday), the “tongue of the water” as the locals here call it, streamed past Boro II village after stalling on the upper Boro River for two days in a big and wide bend. It is now on the narrow and steep part of the Boro River and so many are already revising their estimations of the day the water will arrive at Matapana in Maun.

The water has travelled 2,000km from the Angolan highlands, the water tower that is the source of the Okavango River system. The Luchaze people who inhabit the Angolan highlands call this Water Tower “Lisima Lya Mwono”, which means the “Source of Life”. Every year rains pour down on Lisima Lya Mwono from around November to April. The water collected flows through big rivers via Namibia and the first waters arrive in the Okavango Delta around April.