Water: 2 million cubic meters entered the dams, raising the total storage to 87 million cubic meters, by 31%.

Written By سنان خلف on 2023/02/03

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">The Ministry of Water and Irrigation / Jordan Valley Authority announced that the total quantities of water entering all the Kingdom&#39;s dams during the past 24 hours until this Friday morning amounted to (2) million cubic meters, raising its storage to 87 million cubic meters, with a storage rate of 31%, and the annual rainfall rose to 53, 5% of the average, accounting for 67% of the total rainfall last year.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The incoming quantities of 2 million cubic meters to the dams were concentrated in the King Talal Dam, where it entered 1,280 million cubic meters, raising its storage to 28.7 million cubic meters, with a storage rate of 42%. The remaining amount was distributed to the northern dams, while the southern dams, namely Mujib, Al-Tanour, Al-Lajjun and Al-Karak, did not enter any quantities.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> As for precipitation rates in the governorates, the highest rates were recorded in Amman (5.4 mm), Balqa 4.3 mm, Madaba 2 mm, Zarqa 0.9 mm, Jerash 2.9 mm, Mafraq 0.9 mm, Irbid 2 mm, and Ajloun 5.1 mm. Karak 0.7 mm, Tafilah 0.1 mm, while Maan and Aqaba did not record any quantities.</p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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