Monthly hydrological buletin May 2014

END OF 2013/2014 HYDROLOGICAL YEAR

May 2014 marks the end of the hydrological year 2013/2014 in the Niger River Basin. The flows have continued to decline throughout the basin. The monthly average flows recorded at Koulikoro was 187 m3/s, 44m3/s at Dire , was 101 m3/s at Niamey and 3143 m3/s at Lokoja. Ultimately, because of low rainfall throughout the Niger basin in 2014, the flows of the hydrological year 2013-2014 are very low in almost the entire basin.

However, there was the first rainfall towards the end of May in some parts of the basin.