Al Wahda Dam
Dam and hydroelectric scheme, 3.80 km3 reservoir at design, 3.714 km3 as measured by the basin agency; about 400 GWh/year of hydroelectricity in Morocco.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Morocco
- Location
- Ouezzane
- Coordinates
- 34.598, -5.200
- Technology
- Dam and hydroelectric scheme
- Capacity
- 3.80 km3 reservoir at design, 3.714 km3 as measured by the basin agency; about 400 GWh/year of hydroelectricity
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministère de l'Équipement et de l'Eau; Agence du Bassin Hydraulique du Sebou
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Agence du Bassin Hydraulique du Sebou
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1996
- Commissioned
- 1996
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1996-01
First impoundment
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.
- NOVEC, Barrage Al Wahda. novec.ma.
- Zoned earth embankment with clay core on the Oued Ouergha, 88 m high, 3,800 Mm3 storage, 27 million m3 of fill, impounded from 1996; irrigates 100,000 ha in the Gharb and 15,000 ha in the Bas Ouergha; about 400 million kWh/year; NOVEC designed the bottom outlet and intake works and supervised construction.
- Agence du Bassin Hydraulique du Sebou, Ouvrages hydrauliques. abhsebou.ma.
- Al Wahda is the second largest dam in Africa with 3,714 Mm3 of storage; the Sebou basin holds 11 large dams totalling 6,059 Mm3 and regularising 3,230 Mm3 (site has an expired TLS certificate).
- EcoActu, Un siecle d'histoire graphique de nos barrages (Feb 2026). ecoactu.ma.
- 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.
Lists Al Wahda 1996 at 3,800 Mm3.