NBL, WWF sign N$13m Swakop water deal

Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL), WWF Namibia and the Global Water Challenge (GWC) have signed a N$13 million, five-year agreement to strengthen water security in the Swakop River Basin.The project aims to deliver about 386 million litres of annual water benefits by 2030 and to restore or improve the management of 153 hectares of land. The annual water benefit equals more than 150 Olympic-sized swimming pools.The partners signed a memorandum of agreement in Windhoek last Wednesday for the Swakop Basin Collective Action Project, also known as the NBL Water Balancing Project. WWF Namibia will implement it with GWC and the City of Windhoek from 2026 to 2030.The work will take place in the upper Swakop catchment.Measures include managed aquifer recharge, other nature-based interventions to improve groundwater recharge and water quality, removing invasive alien plants from riverbeds, and developing a sub-basin water allocation and abstraction plan.The basin supplies communities, agriculture, industry and towns across central Namibia, but growing demand, recurring droughts and climate change are putting pressure on its water resources.

NBL, WWF sign N$13m Swakop water deal

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Namibian Sun 2026-11-03

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NBL, WWF sign N$13m Swakop water deal

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