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Malawi has experienced frequent flooding over the past 40 years due to heavy rainfall. Some districts like Nsanje, Chikwawa, and Phalombe have been affected almost every year, with over 550,000 households (3.3 million people) impacted since 1970. The floods have caused loss of life, property damage, and displacement. National data shows flooding events and victims increasing since the 1990s, with over 3 million people affected between 2000-2003 alone. Lower altitude districts like Nsanje and Chikwawa located along rivers tend to experience more severe impacts compared to highland and lake districts.
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This is a summary of occurrence of floods in Malawi from 1970 to 2010
Malawi has experienced frequent flooding over the past 40 years due to heavy rainfall. Some districts like Nsanje, Chikwawa, and Phalombe have been affected almost every year, with over 550,000 households (3.3 million people) impacted since 1970. The floods have caused loss of life, property damage, and displacement. National data shows flooding events and victims increasing since the 1990s, with over 3 million people affected between 2000-2003 alone. Lower altitude districts like Nsanje and Chikwawa located along rivers tend to experience more severe impacts compared to highland and lake districts.
Malawi has experienced frequent flooding over the past 40 years due to heavy rainfall. Some districts like Nsanje, Chikwawa, and Phalombe have been affected almost every year, with over 550,000 households (3.3 million people) impacted since 1970. The floods have caused loss of life, property damage, and displacement. National data shows flooding events and victims increasing since the 1990s, with over 3 million people affected between 2000-2003 alone. Lower altitude districts like Nsanje and Chikwawa located along rivers tend to experience more severe impacts compared to highland and lake districts.
Malawi has been divided into three main political and administrative regions, these are; Northern region, Central region and the Southern region. In total, all the regions have twenty-eight districts. The country has dierent water bodies which include la!es, rivers, mashes and some minor streams. The la!es include; "a!e Malawi, "a!e Chilwa, "a!e Malombe, "a!e Chiuta and "a!e #a$uni. "a!e Malawi, the largest o all is even the third largest "a!e in %rica while "a!e Chilwa is an inland drainage "a!e. The main rivers include Shire, "inthipe, &uo, 'ua, (omasi, South &u!uru and North &u!uru among others. Malawi has been ound to be a single hydrologic unit or catchment area in that all the rain waters that ell has a single outlet which Shire river, which also happens to be the largest river in Malawi, to )ambe$i in Mo$ambi*ue and inally to Indian +cean. 1.1 Occurrence of Flood +ver the past ourty years the country has been aected by loods due to overlowing o the water bodies as a result o heavy rains in dierent parts o the country. % lot o damage has been caused and a lot o people aected. Such damage includes loss o lie and property. 1.1.0 Occurrence of foods per District ,loods have ever occurred in almost all the districts o the country and a good number o years on national level. ,or instance during the past ourty years, it is on Ntchisi district that has never reported any cases o loods. The table and graph below show the occurrence o loods since -./0 up to 10-0. Table 1: Frequency of floods per district between 1970 to 2010 District Frequency District Frequency District Frequency District Frequency 'ala!a 2 #aronga -3 Mulan4e 2 Ntcheu / 'lantyre 2 #asungu - Mwan$a 5 Ntchisi 0 Chi!wawa -1 "i!oma 1 M$imba 5 6halombe / Chitipa 1 "ilongwe 1 Neno - &umphi 7 Chrad$ulu - Machinga -- N!hatabay 2 Salima -1 (ed$a 8 Mangochi 7 N!ota!ota 8 Thyolo - (owa 1 Mchin4i 3 Nsan4e -- )omba -5 Malawi Flood Review summary Dumisani Siwinda, 2012 Fig1: Graph of flood frequency per forty years period against District Since the year -./0 up to date, each district 9e:cept Ntchisi; has ever reported a lood occurrence atleast once over the period. Notable districts o re*uency atleast ten are )omba, Chi!wawa, Nsan4e, #aronga, Machinga and Salima. <hile Chirad$ulu, #asungu, Neno and Thyolo have only reported a single occurrence o loods each. 1.1.1 Occurrence of floods per year (espite the act that almost each district has ever reported a case o lood since -./0, the loods have not been occurring annually. There are some years with no single occurrence o loods in the country and also some years with several occurrences o loods in dierent parts o the country. The table and graph below show the occurrence o loods per year in the country between a period o -./0 to 10-0. Table 2: u!ber of occurrences of floods per year Malawi Flood Review summary Dumisani Siwinda, 2012 =ear Number o occurrences =ear Number o occurrences =ear Number o occurrences =ear Number o occurrences -./0 3 -.7- 1 -..- - 100- -2 -./- 0 -.71 8 -..1 0 1001 -- -./1 0 -.73 - -..3 0 1003 -2 -./3 1 -.75 - -..5 0 1005 / -./5 0 -.72 3 -..2 1 1002 5 -./2 2 -.78 2 -..8 / 1008 -- -./8 0 -.7/ 0 -../ 7 100/ -3 -.// 0 -.77 0 -..7 2 1007 -0 -./7 0 -.7. 0 -... 7 100. 0 -./. - -..0 0 1000 3 10-0 2 -.70 5 Fig 2: Graph of flood occurrences against years It has been observed that or the past seventeen years, rom the year -..2, loods have been occurring annually 9e:cept 100.; and with an increased occurrence or re*uency at National level. ,or instance, in the years 100- to 1003 and 1008 to 1007 the nation reported atleast ten occurrences o loods each year. <hile the irst twenty ive years rom -./0, it>s only -./2, -.71 and -.78 that recorded more than our occurrences o loods. 1.1.2 Occurrence of floods and households directly affected %s stated earlier, a lot o damage and loss o property has been caused due to such loods. The table and graph below shows number o households that have been aected by loods in selected district with occurrence o more than ten or the past ourty years. These districts are Chi!wawa, Malawi Flood Review summary Dumisani Siwinda, 2012 Machinga, Nsan4e, #aronga, Salima and )omba. The damage reported or number o households reported is between the years -..8 to 10-0. Fig ": #ap of #alawi showing si$ districts with the highest flood occurrences since 1970 Malawi Flood Review summary Dumisani Siwinda, 2012 Table %: u!ber of households affected per year in the selected districts District YEAR -..8 -../ -..7 -... 1000 100- 1001 1003 1005 1002 1008 100/ 1007 10-0 Chi!wawa -- 30000 510 -.170 -../ -180 105./ .-/ 3213 #aronga 5-/5 7252 -11-8 -3115 87.3 523.8 2233 /5 83 .58 Machinga 700 -/ 320 -1000 -22 3. /23 371 /0 Nsan4e 205 /0000 -770. 112. 12000 /00 3- -357 72-1 -32- //.85 Salima 2118 -110 .000 -72 3000 332 5- 12.. 8 )omba 115 132. 37 -135 -3000 2553 3121 1-0 818 3/2 .5 Fig %: Graph of &ouseholds affected against years per district Since -..8 up to 10-0, about 552000 households which translates to about 3.3 million people have ever been aected by loods in the country. +n national level, including all districts, it is estimated that over 3 million people again were aected by loods between the years 100- to 1003 alone. These eects include; loss o lie, damage o houses which resulted to people being displaced and loss o arm crops among others. 'etween the year -..8 to 10-0, it is observed that Nsan4e which is the lowest altitude district and located in the southern tip o Malawi containing the sole outlet o Malawi hydrologic system, Shire river, reported the highest annual victims o loods per district. This is more especially in the years o -../, -..., 100- and 10-0. This is seconded by the la!eshore district o #aronga in 100- and Chi!wawa, another lower altitude district, in 1000 ? 1008 respectively. <hile )omba 9that contains inland drainage la!e, Chilwa; though having the highest re*uency o loods over the years, has less number o victims. This is the same with the la!eshore district o Salima and Machinga that contains "a!e Malombe.
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