Karameh Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), 52.52 million m3 reservoir capacity in Jordan.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Jordan
- Location
- Balqa
- Coordinates
- 32.010, 35.555
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- 52.52 million m3 reservoir capacity
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Jordan Valley Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1998
- Commissioned
- 1998
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1998
dam completed on Wadi Al Mallaha at a height of 45 m with an initial capacity of 52.52 million m3, storing surplus flood water drawn from the King Abdullah Canal to irrigate the southern Jordan Valley
- 2023
National Water Strategy excludes Karameh from the national dam storage total of about 280 million m3
Sources
6 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.
- 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 Karameh a completion year of 1997 and live storage of 55 million m3, against AQUASTAT's 1998 and 52.52 million m3. Ministry of Water and Irrigation, National Water Strategy 2023-2040. mwi.gov.jo.
- 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.
Thirteen main dams of about 280 million m3 total storage excluding Karameh; bulk supply shares for 2021; 31 wastewater plants of about 600,000 m3/day. The host is slow and a full download needs a long curl timeout.