Water storage in Al-Hasakah dams is approximately 180 million cubic meters

The Directorate of Water Resources of Al-Hasakah Governorate has indicated that the volume of storage of the governorate’s dams is currently approximately 180 million cubic meters, some of which have witnessed marked increases as a result of rivers and valleys flow over the past period.

The Director of Water Resources, Eng. Abdulaziz Amin, in a statement to SANA , noted that the storage volume of the Martyr Al-Basil dam south of Hasaka was 124,840,000 cubic meters, after an increase of 31 million cubic meters in storage, as a result of rains, floods and runoff.

Amin reviewed the volume of storage in the rest of Hasaka’s dams, where Al-Safan dam, in Al-Malikiyah countryside, reached 27,191,000,

I 3,480,000 in Bab Al-Hadid, 11,500,000 in Al-Jarrahi, 5,500,000 in Al-Jawadiyah, 5,103,000 in Al-Hakmiah, and 1,202,000 in Al-Mansoura, and 870 thousand cubic meters in Mashouk.

Eng. Amin noted that water had been pumped into the Eastern Hasaka Dam as a result of the flooding of a nearby valleys, but that the quantities of water accessing it had been low and had not exceeded the zero-storage limit, as a result of the dam’s complete drought over the past years, following droughts suffered by the governorate, a dramatic decline in rainfall, and drought of valleys and rivers that feed it.

The governorate dams’ water is used in irrigation of nearby agricultural land, while the reservoir of the Al-Safan Dam is used to provide part of the drinking water needs of the people of Qamishli and some cities north of the province.

Amal Farhat