Recent rain channels 7mcm of water into dams

AMMAN — The recent rainfall channelled around seven million cubic metres (mcm) of water into the Kingdom’s major dams, the Ministry of Water announced on Wednesday.

The precipitation has raised the overall volume of rainfall since the beginning of the wet season to 1,242mcm, which equals 15.2 per cent of Jordan’s long-term annual average of rainfall of 8.1 billion cubic metres, according to a ministry statement.

The storage at the dams reached 80mcm, which is 23.7 per cent of their total capacity of 336.4 mcm, the statement added.

The ministry noted that the water flow needs between 24 and 48 hours to reach dams, calling on the public to take advantage of the rainfall to store water in all available facilities to enhance national water security.

The ministry underlined the necessity of not littering in valley streams in order to preserve surface and groundwater and to ensure that rainwater gutters are not connected to sewage networks.