Tishreen Dam
Dam and hydroelectric scheme, 1,900 million m3 reservoir; 630 MW across six turbines in Syria.
Stalled
The record
- Country
- Syria
- Location
- Sarrin
- Coordinates
- 36.381, 38.186
- Technology
- Dam and hydroelectric scheme
- Capacity
- 1,900 million m3 reservoir; 630 MW across six turbines
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Stalled
- Owner or client
- —
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1999
- Commissioned
- 1999
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1991
Construction starts on the Euphrates
- 1999
Dam completed with 630 MW across six turbines
- 2024-12
Dam becomes non-operational on 10 December amid hostilities
- 2025-01
Still non-functional after six weeks, with 413,000 people deprived of water and electricity
- 2025-04
Transitional government and the SDF agree a phased handover of the dam area
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.
- ESCWA and BGR, Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia, Chapter 1, Euphrates River Basin (2013). waterinventory.org.
- Table 3 gives Syria, Tishreen, 1999, 1,900 million m3, hydropower.
- Vakur Sumer, ORSAM, War over Tishreen Dam (12 Jan 2016). orsam.org.tr.
- Construction started 1991 and completed 1999; capacity 630 MW with six turbines; height 40 metres; the main purpose is hydropower and it supplies most of the electricity of northern Syria.
- UN OCHA, Syrian Arab Republic Flash Update No. 12 on recent developments (21 Jan 2025). reliefweb.int.
- The Tishreen Dam has been non-functional for six weeks, depriving 413,000 people in Menbij and Ain al-Arab of water and electricity, with hostilities hindering repair efforts.
- FDD's Long War Journal (15 Apr 2025). longwarjournal.org.
- 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.
Records an agreement for the SDF to withdraw and transfer control to Damascus general security forces. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap. The dam is recorded as stalled because the last verified state is non-operational from 10 December 2024, and no source opened confirms a restart.