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Al Wahda Dam, formerly known as M'Jaara Dam, is an embankment dam on the Ouergha River near M´Jaara in Ouezzane Province, Morocco. It was constructed for flood control, irrigation, water supply and hydroelectric power production. It is the second largest dam in Africa and the largest in Morocco. [1]
'Unity Dam'), formerly known as Maqarin Dam, is a 110 m (360 ft) roller-compacted concrete gravity dam on the Yarmouk River on the border between Syria and Jordan. [1] It can hold up to 115,000,000 m 3 (93,000 acre⋅ft) water and is designed to provide Jordan with water for both human consumption and agriculture.
Al Wahda Dam (Morocco); Al-Wehda Dam in Syria and Jordan. This page was last edited on 2 May 2023, at 18:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The largest dam is the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates. It forms the Lake Assad with a maximum storage capacity of 11.7 km 3. Medium-sized dams include the Al-Rastan (0.2 km 3), the Mouhardeh (0.05 km 3) and the Taldo (0.02 km 3). There are some twenty dams classified as small, the largest of which is the Dara'a, with a storage capacity of 0.02 km 3 ...
The depression was to be filled to a height of 60 m below sea level. It would take a total of 10 years to fill to that level. After that the incoming flow would balance out against the outgoing evaporation, and the lake level would stabilize. In the first phase of the project the Qattara 1 station was to generate 670 megawatts (MW).
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The Aswan High Dam, constructed in Egypt in 1964–1968, created Lake Nasser. It was designed with a maximum water level of 183 metres (600 ft) above sea level. As a precaution against any unexpected rise in Lake Nasser's water level, a spillway and channel were built in 1978.