Mujib Dam
Mujib Dam (Arabic: سد الموجب) is located in Wadi Mujib, between the cities of Madaba and Kerak, in the Madaba Governorate of Jordan. It is a rolled concrete dam with abutments of clay-core rockfill completed in 2004, after six years of construction. Highway 35, part of the historic King's Highway, crosses the crest. The water it impounds is combined with desalinated water piped from brackish wells along the Dead Sea to the west in a reservoir holding 35 million m (1 billion US gallons) which primarily supplies Amman, 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the north helping to ease a very stressed national water supply.
See also
References
- ^ "Dams in Jordan" (PDF). Jordan Valley Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- ^ "Jordan: Arab Contractors set for Mujib dam contract". MEED. 24 December 1999. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- ^ "Mujib:Lahmeyer International". Lahmeyer International. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- ^ "Specimen projects". Technische Universität München. 2009–2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
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