The Possibilities of Capturing Rainwater and Reducing the Impact of Floods: A Proposal for the City of Beira, Mozambique

Modern societies face various challenges, including climate change, rapid urbanization, and sometimes inadequate urban planning policies. In recent years, extreme weather events have received increasing attention for their impacts on cities, humans, ecosystems worldwide, particularly coastal towns in Mozambique, such as cyclones, floods, water pollution, scarcity, demonstrating vulnerability to change. Cities must adapt cope with the pressure resources, it is essential ensure that communities access safe, reliable, affordable water. A viable way promote this resilience simultaneously reduce costs domestic budgets use rainwater meet daily needs where quality parameters are not required consumption. According results of study, possible significantly potable from municipal supply network by harvesting rainwater, up 40% when does require at all, proactively protecting vital resource. addition these direct benefits, large-scale deployment (RWH) systems densely urbanized areas can also provide indirect reducing peak flow volumes stormwater drainage potentially frequency floods. These benefits result reduction volume duration sent network, which help improve overall change other challenges.