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rivers in the provinces of
Cibitoke, Bubanza and Kayanza to wash their products; builders extract rubble, gravel and sand for construction from the rivers; and farmers weaken their banks by failing to leave a 5 metres (16 ft) strip of uncultivated land along the banks. All this contributes to
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at an altitude of around 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). The water temperature does not vary much during the year. In 1983 the pH was stable, ranging from 7.5 in
February to 8.0 in August. The Nyamagana watershed has one of the highest erosion rates in the Ruzizi plain at 108 tonnes per hectare per
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by cooperatives such as the
Duterimbere Rugombo Mining Cooperative. Conditions are primitive, with inadequate water pumps to drain the holes. The miners have few tools and no protective equipment. The work is hard and earnings are low, since the miners have to sell their gold to middlemen.
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was destroyed by flooding. All trade between the communes came to a halt, children were forced to skip school and patients could not get care. A month later, nothing had been done to replace the bridge since the local governments could not afford the cost of a replacement.
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is taken from an intake on the
Nyamagana River and distributed via a main canal and secondary and tertiary canals. In August 2022 a project underway in the Kivumvu and Kagimbu collines involved construction of an intake and a transfer canal to carry water from the
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The canals in the irrigation network are regularly cleaned and their banks are stabilized and maintained. However, they are threatened by the activities of gold miners who dig holes near the main canal. Gold is mined in the river's swamp at
Rugeregere in the
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In 2024 the colline of
Murambi was threatened by landslides, and had lost 4 hectares (9.9 acres) to the Nyamagana. Tree seedlings had been planted to prevent erosion of the river banks, but had been swept away by the landslides.
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are the two main sources of irrigation water in the Ruzizi plain, although as of 2020 some work was being done to increase the irrigated areas using water from the
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The
Nyamagana River rises in the north of Cibitoke Province near the border with Rwanda. It flows in a generally south-southwest direction past
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Nyamagana is 40 kilometres (25 mi) long, with a basin of 300 square kilometres (120 sq mi). It rises on the slopes of the
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pollution of the river water and to collapse of the banks, damaging bridges, roads, buildings and other infrastructure near the rivers.
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to the Nyamagana irrigation network. This would increase irrigated land in the Rugombo commune by over 250 hectares (620 acres).
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Irrigation of the Imbo-nord perimeter began to be developed in 2014 with funding from the Belgian development agency
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