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Conveyor 800

Water transmission pipeline, About 100 million m3/year diverted from Lake Qaraoun; design irrigation area 15,000 hectares in Lebanon.

Under construction

The record

Country
Lebanon
Location
Qaraoun to Barachit
Coordinates
33.548, 35.690
Technology
Water transmission pipeline
Capacity
About 100 million m3/year diverted from Lake Qaraoun; design irrigation area 15,000 hectares
Capital cost
—
Stage
Under construction
Owner or client
Council for Development and Reconstruction
Contractor
—
Operator
Litani River Authority
Finance
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development and Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
Award or start year
2013
Commissioned
—

Record last checked 2026-09-18.

History

Sources

5 references

Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.

  1. Litani River Authority, Channel 800 project. litani.gov.lb.
  2. Project under implementation, about 100 million cubic metres from Lake Qaraoun to irrigate about 15,000 hectares between Qalia in the western Bekaa and Barachit in Bint Jbeil, with drinking water for villages along the canal.
  3. The authority's depollution page gives 13,000 hectares and more than 100 towns for the same canal, an internal inconsistency left unresolved.
  4. WARD, Conveyor 800 Contract Sections 2 and 3. wardlebanon.com.
  5. 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.

Client the Council for Development and Reconstruction, funded by the Kuwait Fund and the Arab Fund, 110 million m3 a year; Section 2 comprises Markaba Tunnels 1 and 2 totalling 1.2 km at 2.20 m diameter, the Qelia canal of 7.5 km, 35.5 km of main conveyor pipelines, 19 km of secondary conveyor and 14 terminal reservoirs of about 116,000 m3, with a notification order of 21 March 2013. The Markaba conveyance is a component of this scheme and not a separate project. Coordinates are the Lake Qaraoun intake, not a plant location.