Kingdom receives 17% of annual average rainfall

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AMMAN — Since the start of the rainy season, Jordan has witnessed 1.394 billion cubic meters (bcm) of rainfall, 17 percent of the Kingdom’s annual average of 8.1bcm, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry said that the Kingdom’s dams now hold 10.1 percent of their total capacity of 280.7 million cubic meters (mcm), or 28.3mcm, after rainfall over the previous 24 hours raised their level by some 930,000 cubic meters, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. Read more National news Jordan News   (window.globalAmlAds = window.globalAmlAds || []).push('admixer_async_509089081')   (window.globalAmlAds = window.globalAmlAds || []).push('admixer_async_552628228') Read More Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization Sends 50 Trucks of Food Aid to Northern Gaza Maaytah: No Entity Has the Right to Claim It Protects Religion in Jordan Al-Hammouri: Seventh Group of Sick and Injured Children from Gaza Distributed Among Private Hospitals
AMMAN — Since the start of the rainy season, Jordan has witnessed 1.394 billion cubic meters (bcm) of rainfall, 17 percent of the Kingdom’s annual average of 8.1bcm, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation announced on Wednesday.
 


In a statement, the ministry said that the Kingdom’s dams now hold 10.1 percent of their total capacity of 280.7 million cubic meters (mcm), or 28.3mcm, after rainfall over the previous 24 hours raised their level by some 930,000 cubic meters, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.


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