Alouk Water Station
Conveyance + pumping, 34 wells, of which 19 in service at the 2026 restart; supplies more than 500,000 people in Syria.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Syria
- Location
- Ras al-Ain
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Conveyance + pumping
- Capacity
- 34 wells, of which 19 in service at the 2026 restart; supplies more than 500,000 people
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- —
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Rehabilitation carried out with the International Committee of the Red Cross and UNICEF
- Award or start year
- 2026
- Commissioned
- 2026-07
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2020-03
UNICEF warns that interruption puts 460,000 people at risk in Hasakah, Tal Tamr and the Al-Hol and Areesha camps
- 2021-06
Station ceases functioning on 23 June, the 24th disruption recorded by OCHA since November 2019
- 2026-04
Ministry of Energy announces it has taken control and begun technical assessment
- 2026-07
Pumping resumes on 22 July with 19 of 34 wells active
Sources
8 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- UN OCHA, Syria: Alouk Water Station Flash Update, disruption to Alouk Water Station (1 Jul 2021). reliefweb.int.
- On 23 June 2021 the station ceased functioning, affecting direct access to water for approximately 460,000 people; as few as five of 21 boreholes and one of four horizontal pumps had been operational; this was the 24th disruption recorded by OCHA since November 2019; the Al-Himmeh reservoir it supplies serves Al-Hasakeh city.
- UNICEF, Interruption to key water station in the northeast of Syria puts 460,000 people at risk (23 Mar 2020). unicef.org.
- Serves about 460,000 people in Al-Hasakeh city, Tal Tamer and the Al-Hol and Areesha camps.
- SANA, Alouk water station resumes operations (23 Jul 2026). sana.sy.
- Inaugurated by Energy Minister Mohammad al-Bashir and Hasakah Governor Nour al-Din Ahmad; more than 500,000 people served; 19 of 34 wells active; operating at more than 50 percent of design capacity.
- Rudaw, report on the reopening (22 Jul 2026). rudaw.net.
- 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.
Closed more than seven years; Ras al-Ain was taken by Turkey and allied Syrian forces in 2019. The 21-borehole count of 2021 and the 34-well count of 2026 are both reported and are not reconciled. No design flow in m3/day is published in any source opened. Coordinates left blank: the station lies outside Ras al-Ain town. Control of the site has been contested throughout.