Douimis Dam
Dam (storage and irrigation), About 45 million m3/year mobilised, part of it transferred to Sejnane Dam in Tunisia.
Under construction
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Bizerte governorate
- Coordinates
- 37.210, 9.620
- Technology
- Dam (storage and irrigation)
- Capacity
- About 45 million m3/year mobilised, part of it transferred to Sejnane Dam
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Directorate General of Dams and Major Hydraulic Works
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- —
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
No dated milestones recorded yet. They are added as each is confirmed against a public announcement.
Sources
13 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- La Presse de Tunisie, Le barrage de Douimis operationnel fin 2026 pour alimenter le Grand Tunis et le Sahel, 6 August 2026. lapresse.tn.
- The dam in Bizerte governorate will be commissioned before the end of 2026 and will mobilise about 45 million cubic metres of water, routed to the Sejnane dam through the northern water transfer system, to strengthen drinking water and irrigation supply in Bizerte, Greater Tunis, Cap Bon, the Sahel and Sfax.
- Faycal Khemiri, in charge of the Directorate General of Dams and Major Hydraulic Works, chaired a site meeting with the contracting group and the design and supervision offices, pressing for contractual deadlines to be met.
- The remaining phases are installation of hydromechanical equipment, reinforcement and protection of the dam body, and completion of the spillway protection works.
- Webdo, Tunisie: Douimis, Mellegue 2, Raghai, 6 August 2026. webdo.tn.
- carries the same figures.
- African Manager, Une serie de projets au cours de l'annee 2026 afin d'assurer l'eau potable, 17 October 2025. africanmanager.com.
- The Minister of Agriculture lists Douimis among the surface water mobilisation works continuing through 2026. No page opened gives a cost, a start year or a reservoir capacity distinct from the 45 million cubic metres a year mobilised.
- Coordinates added on 20 September 2026, approximate.
- OpenStreetMap way 1370754086, an unnamed dam first mapped in March 2025, lies at 37.2072 9.6231 with reservoir way 1370754087 of about 46 hectares behind it, and it is the only new dam of that size mapped in the delegation.
- Reverse geocoding returns the Sidi Amer imada in the Bizerte Sud delegation of Bizerte governorate.
- Tunisie Numérique, the Douimis dam project in southern Bizerte will be functional by the end of this year. ar.tunisienumerique.com.
- 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.
places the dam in Bizerte Sud, gives its area as 300 hectares and runs its irrigated perimeter from the Sidi Amer imada to the edge of the Louata imada. The feature carries no name, so the pin is given to two decimals and rests on the delegation, the imada and the date of the mapping.