Dams in the UAE harvest the largest amount of water in 38 years

Arab weather - Sinan Khalaf - record rains recorded by some regions of the UAE in the amount of rain that fell in the praise of God during the recent depression, which affected the various regions of the country, where the quantities of rain recorded in the area of snout Al-Shaklah in Al- Ain during the past two days reached 184.8 mm , breaking the highest recorded number Since 1996 in Khor Fakkan, at 144 mm.

According to the report issued by the Ministry of Energy and Industry, the dams of the ministry harvested 36 million, 816 thousand and 255 cubic meters during the days of January 11 and 12, and the northern region dams recorded the highest amount of rain water, reaching 23 million and 335 thousand and 411 cubic meters, as the amounts of water collected in Lakes of the dams of the eastern region are about 7 million, 283 thousand and 817 cubic meters, and the lakes of the dams of the central region are about 6 million, 197 thousand and 27 cubic meters.

The report revealed the flood of 23 dams from the ministry ’s 104 dams, the most prominent of which is the main Seiji dam in the Emirate of Fujairah, explaining that the amount of rain water collected in the Bayh Dam amounted to about 20 million cubic meters, and the storage capacity of this dam was 7 million cubic meters, but it was done Increase it to about twenty million cubic meters in honor of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State.

It is noteworthy that the number of dams supervised by the Ministry of Energy and Industry has doubled during the past years, and currently reaches 104 dams with a storage capacity of 80 million cubic meters, compared to 4 dams with a storage capacity of twenty million cubic meters in 1982.