AMMAN —
The
Ministry of Water and Irrigation said Saturday that 624,500 cubic meters of
water was stored in dams across the Kingdom after downpours in the past 24
hours, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reportedly.
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The ministry said
in a statement that the quantities were distributed among Al-Wehda dam, which
received 104,000 cubic meters; Wadi Al-Arab 9,000; Zeqlab 13,900; Kufranja
44,800; King Talal 337,800; Wadi Shuaib 35,400; and Kafrein 78,600 cubic
meters.
But it added that
the southern dams of Zarqa, Main, Wala, Mujib, Tanour, Lajun, and Karak had not
recorded any new amounts.
It said that the
storage rate in the dams is currently 27,150 million cubic meters, with a
storage rate of 9.7 percent of the total dams’ capacity of 280,759 million
cubic meters.
The volume of rain
that fell since the start of the season was about 1.15 billion cubic meters of
the average annual rate, or 14.1 percent of the annual rate of 8.1 billion
cubic meters.
The highest
rainfall was recorded in
Ajloun in the past 24 hours, at 33.8mm, it said.
The ministry urged
the public to collect rainwater for various uses as part of the national
strategy to achieve water security, cautioning against dumping waste into
streams or connecting gutters to sewers.
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