King Abdullah Canal
Bulk conveyance + pumping, 110 km of canal, design discharge 20 m3/second at the northern head; conveying about 150 million m3/year in 1998 in Jordan.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Jordan
- Location
- Jordan Valley
- Coordinates
- 32.640, 35.600
- Technology
- Bulk conveyance + pumping
- Capacity
- 110 km of canal, design discharge 20 m3/second at the northern head; conveying about 150 million m3/year in 1998
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Jordan Valley Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Jordan Valley Authority
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- —
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1955
Johnston Plan provides the basis for the scheme, after which the East Ghor Canal was built in Jordan in the early sixties
- 1977
Jordan Valley Authority formed for the integrated development of the Jordan Valley
- 1998
canal conveying about 150 million m3/year and feeding the Deir Alla intake for Amman
- 2014
Jordan Valley Authority describes the 110 km canal as the backbone of the valley's hydraulic infrastructure, alongside ten main dams of 325 million m3 and 36,000 hectares of irrigated land
Sources
7 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Jordan Valley Authority, River Basin Management, presentation by JVA Secretary General Sa'ad Abu Hammour, International Integrated Basin Management Workshop, Istanbul, 25 to 26 February 2014, hosted by SESRIC. sesric.org.
- Ten main dams of 325 million m3 storage, 36,000 hectares developed for irrigation, and the 110 km King Abdullah Canal described as the backbone of the valley's hydraulic infrastructure.
- 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 JICA master plan records the canal carrying about 150 million m3/year in 1998 from the Yarmouk, the Mukheiba well field and the Dajania diversion, for irrigation and industry in the valley and for municipal supply through the Deir Alla intake to the Zai treatment plant.
- 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. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap, canal way near Al-Adasiyya at the northern head.