{"id":299883,"date":"2021-01-08T07:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T05:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299883"},"modified":"2021-01-08T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T05:59:45","slug":"orange-river-reaches-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299883","title":{"rendered":"Orange River reaches the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FLOOD water in Orange River on the southern border of Namibia has reached the Atlantic Ocean at Oranjemund and is currently flowing strongly into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After water levels in the lower end of the river have been critically low for the past two years because of continuous drought, good rains over southern Namibia and large parts of South Africa, where the river originates, saw a wave of flood water eventually reaching the river\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Orange River reaches the Atlantic\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMVoiG6ZSjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a previous event in 2018 where residents of the mining town dug a channel for the river to reach the ocean a small stream from the river were constantly flowing under the bridge that connects South Africa with Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The flood down the Orange River was boosted by a wave of floodwater from the Fish River in Namibia after heavy rains fell over southern Namibia for the past week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accumulated water mass reached Oranjemund on Wednesday and residents flocked to the banks to view the spectacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":299887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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