Kafrein Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), 8.5 million m3 reservoir capacity in Jordan.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Jordan
- Location
- Balqa
- Coordinates
- 31.851, 35.676
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- 8.5 million m3 reservoir capacity
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Jordan Valley Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1997
- Commissioned
- 1997
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1997
dam raised to a height of 37 m with a reservoir capacity of 8.5 million m3, for irrigation above the King Abdullah Canal, flood control and pollution control
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- FAO AQUASTAT, Dams of Jordan (JOR-dams_eng.xlsx), national reference 21. storage.googleapis.com.
- The table gives, for each dam, the year completed or improved, dam height, initial reservoir capacity in million m3, purposes and decimal coordinates.
- JICA and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, The Study on Water Resources Management in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Final Report, Master Plan. openjicareport.jica.go.jp.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Tables 2.1.3-3 and 2.1.3-4, sourced from MWI, list the existing dams with completion year, type, height, catchment and live storage. The master plan gives Kafrein a completion year of 1996 and live storage of 8.5 million m3.