National Water Resources Authority NRWA has said is releasing 1,450,000 liters of water per second at Kamuzu Barrage in Liwonde in order to help minimize the swelling of Lake Malawi.
In a statement, NRWA said as of 13 April 2026, water levels in the lake was 476.43 meters above seas level against 475.72 meters recorded on the same date last year, representing an increase of 0.71 meter.
NWRA spokesperson Masozi Kasambara in an interview with Radio Islam said the current lake levels breaks the 2023-2024 hydrological year record and is the second highest lake level for the past 46 years.
“Water levels continue rising as we speak, we are at 71 centimeters higher than the corresponding date last year”, Said Kasambara.
“The status-co has been necessitated by heavy precipitation in the north and centra region of Malawi but also the republic of Tanzania since the republic of Tanzania forms an integral component of catchment area for lake Malawi.
Kasambara further said NWRA is aware that the lake levels has affected a number of livelihoods upstream and downstream of the Kamuzu barrage hence increasing discharge of water volume at the barrage.
NWRA has since urged Malawians to desist from undertaking any agricultural or construction activities in the buffer zones of the water bodies in the country without authorization from the National Water Resources Authority.
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