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between eight and eleven hours daily,
depending on seasons, with clear skies and
low relative humidity.
Seasons
Spring is usually around September to
October with short, hot, dry days and hot
nights with summers from November to
March seeing long very hot days and short
n i g h t s w i t h p e r i o d i c r a i n a n d
thunderstorms. Autumn has hot days
followed by cool nights around the month
of April to May while winters are
characterized by cold dry and windy days
and very cold nights.
Wind
Strong winds occur in association with
thunderstorm during rainy seasons.
Occasionally peak speeds of over 80knots
are recorded. Such winds are generally
short-lived, lasting only for a few minutes to
an hour. Although not common, such gusty
wind should be expected to occur
anywhere in the country.
Water
Jwaneng is located in a dry area with scarce
surface water. The internal drainage
system is through calcrete pans in a form of
ephemeral streams and temporary surface
water for a short period of time.
For over 30 years Jwaneng town is supplied
from the Jwaneng northern fields
commonly known as Magagarape well field
which is located some 50km in the
Kweneng district north of Jwaneng
diamond Mine. It was officially established
in 1984 with allocated water rights of
17760000m³ per annum. The well field is
300km in area and comprises of thirty four
(34) boreholes from which a larger
percentage of abstracted water is used in
the mining process. The other percentage is
reticulated by Water Utilities Corporation
for domestic use in Jwaneng and around
the villages of Lekotswana, Magagarape
and Dinare. The first 16 were drilled in 1979,
ten (10) in 1982, Two (2) in 1994 and six (6) in
2013, while an additional 23 monitoring
boreholes are at various locations around
the well-fields and used for local and
regional drawdown.
Water Utilities Corporation
Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) is a
parastatal organization wholly owned by
Botswana Government. It was established
in 1970 by an Act of Parliament (Laws of
Botswana Cap: 74:02) and mandated to
supply, manage the planning, constructing,
operating, treating, maintaining and
distributing water resources in the
country's urban centers and other areas
mandated by the Botswana Government,
as well as the supply of bulk water to the
Department of Water Affairs and the
various Local Authorities for distribution to
villages and other small settlements in the
country. The corporation has a set up
offices which offer different services in the