For a little over three years now, the institutions managing and supplying drinking water in the Mozambican city of Nampula, have been forced to impose restrictions on the supply, between July and December, due to the incapacity of the only dam serving the city.

On Tuesday, the director general of the Northern Regional Water Administration, Carlitos Omar, said in a press conference that the solution is to build a new dam, but there is no money yet.

Quoted by VOA, Omar said that the authorities are looking for investment, but there is funding of five million US dollars from the World Bank to conduct a study of the Meluli watershed, where the dam is to be built.

We as water resource managers are not standing still. We are looking for investment," said Omar.

The dam that supplies the city of Nampula was built on the Monapo River in 1959, with capacity to supply 120,000 homes at the time. Now the population has grown to just over 800,000, and the city needs 120,000 cubic meters. The dam, when full, provides only 40,000 cubic meters of water.