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Kingdom’s dams reach 31.5% of storage capacity
By JT - Feb 04,2023 - Last updated at Feb 04,2023
AMMAN — The volume of rainfall has met 55 per cent of Jordan’s annual average of 8.1 billion cubic metres since the beginning of the season, the Water and Irrigation Ministry announced on Saturday.
A total of 1.6 million cubic metres (mcm) of water entered the Kingdom’s dams from the recent rainfall, bringing the dams’ storage to 88.5mcm, or 31.5 per cent out of a total capacity of 280.760mcm, the according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
King Talal Dam received the highest quantity of water at 831,000cm, raising its reserve to 29.4mcm, or 44 per cent of its total capacity. Over the past 24 hours, the highest quantity of rainfall was recorded in Irbid, at 26.2millimetres.
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