Recent rainfall channels 7mln cm of water into dams

Home Jordan News Recent rainfall channels 7mln cm of water into dams 22-12-2021 01:08 PM Ammon News - Jordan's major dams now hold 80 million cubic metres (cm) or 23.7 percent of their total storage capacity of 336.4 million cm, as the recent rainfall has channeled some 7 million cm of water until Wednesday morning, according to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. In a statement, the ministry indicated that the quantity of rainfall since the beginning of the wet season amounted to 1.24 billion cm, nearly 15.2 percent, of the Kingdom’s long-term annual precipitation of 8.1 billion, noting that water flow in valleys and torrents takes 24-48 hours before reaching the dams. The ministry called on the public to take advantage of the rainfall by storing it in all available facilities, and to avoid waste-dumping in valley streams in order to preserve surface and ground water. The dams of Wala, Mujib, Tannur, Lajun and Karak did not receive any amount of water during the recent rainy depression, it highlighted.

Home Jordan News

Recent rainfall channels 7mln cm of water into dams

22-12-2021 01:08 PM

Ammon News - Jordan's major dams now hold 80 million cubic metres (cm) or 23.7 percent of their total storage capacity of 336.4 million cm, as the recent rainfall has channeled some 7 million cm of water until Wednesday morning, according to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation.

In a statement, the ministry indicated that the quantity of rainfall since the beginning of the wet season amounted to 1.24 billion cm, nearly 15.2 percent, of the Kingdom’s long-term annual precipitation of 8.1 billion, noting that water flow in valleys and torrents takes 24-48 hours before reaching the dams.

The ministry called on the public to take advantage of the rainfall by storing it in all available facilities, and to avoid waste-dumping in valley streams in order to preserve surface and ground water.

The dams of Wala, Mujib, Tannur, Lajun and Karak did not receive any amount of water during the recent rainy depression, it highlighted.

no comments

Notice

All comments are reviewed and posted only if approved.
Ammon News reserves the right to delete any comment at any time, and for any reason, and will not publish any comment containing offense or deviating from the subject at hand, or to include the names of any personalities or to stir up sectarian, sectarian or racial strife, hoping to adhere to a high level of the comments as they express The extent of the progress and culture of Ammon News' visitors, noting that the comments are expressed only by the owners.

name : *
email
	show email
comment : *
Verification code :	Refresh write code :