The Maputo basin is shared by Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland and includes the tributaries Pongola and Usuthu Rivers and the estuary. These riparian states establised in 1983 the "Tripartite Permanent Technical Committee" (TPTC) to agree on water use in the shared watercourses enabling sustainable development.

Total Area: 29,970 km²
Riparian Countries: Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland

ICPs working in the Maputo river basin:

• Directorate General for International Cooperation of the Netherlands (DGIS)
• European Commission (EC)

River Basin Organisations (RBOs) working in the Maputo river basin:

• Inco-Maputo Tripartite Permanent Technical Committee
• SADC Water Division (SADC WD)

Projects within the Maputo river basin:

• Economic Accounting of Water Use in the SADC Region
• Support Programme for the Water Sector in SADC: Maputo Basin Study.
• Support to ARA Sul

Agreements

• Tripartite Interim Agreement for Co-Operation on the Protection and Substainable Utilisation of the Water Resources of the Incomati and Maputo Watercourses (2002)