The Letsibogo Dam on the Motloutse has been built to serve the industrial town of Selebi-Phikwe and surrounding local areas, with potential for use in irrigation.

[1] A field survey of the region in January 1989, before the dam was built, recorded 120 species of birds, mostly small insectivores.

[1] Gold mining along the Motloutse and Limpopo rivers started around 1200 CE, about the time that Great Zimbabwe rose to become a regional power.

[6] was found in 1860 in the old workings near Francistown, to the north of the river, causing the first small gold rush in Africa.

[7] The first authenticated diamonds to be found in Botswana were three small stones discovered in 1959 by the Central African Selection Trust in gravels in the Motloutse River near Foley Siding.