Dam storage increased to 141.370 million cubic meters, by 42%

2021-02-20 2021-02-20T08:35:11Z
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Arab Weather - The Minister of Water and Irrigation, Dr. Mutasim Saedan, said that the total stock of dams rose this morning, Saturday 20/2 to 141.370 million cubic meters, with a storage rate of 42.02% compared to this time last year, as storage in the dams at that time reached 166.09 million cubic meters, or 49.37 %.

The minister explained that the total rain and surface run-off of the valleys since Friday and until Saturday morning amounted to 3.055 million cubic meters, while the quantities entered during the past 72 hours reached 8.857 million cubic meters, indicating that the outcome of the quantities

The entrance to the dams since the beginning of the rainy season amounted to 50.483 million cubic meters.

Dr. Saedan indicated that the highest quantities of water entered during the past 72 hours were on the King Talal Dam, which amounted to 5.22 million cubic meters of rain and surface runoff to the valleys.

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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