This would supply a regular flow of 1.6 cubic metres per second (57 cu ft/s) to over 300 hectares (740 acres) in the Murambi colline of the Commune of Buganda.
[7] Another project underway in the Kivumvu and Kagimbu collines in August 2022 involved construction of an intake and a transfer canal to carry water from the Muhira River to the Nyamagana irrigation network.
[7] In October 2022 Gervais Ndirakobuca, Prime Minister of Burundi, attended a meeting of communal administrators in Cibitoke.
[8] In December 2023, 180 Enabel staff members from Bujumbura planted trees on the banks of the Muhira River, where the PAIOSA had recently completed a new irrigation dam.
[9] Gold miners use the Muhira, Nyamagana, Kaburantwa and Kagunuzi rivers in the provinces of Cibitoke, Bubanza and Kayanza to wash their products; builders extract rubble, gravel and sand for construction from the rivers; and farmers weaken their banks by failing to leave a 5 metres (16 ft) strip of uncultivated land along the banks.
[12] In 2019 the bridge over the Muhira connecting the communes of Murwi and Rugombo was washed away when torrential rain caused the river to overflow on a large scale.