Written by Abdel Wahab El Gendy
Monday, April 15, 2024 09:14 PM
The Search and Rescue Sector in the Sultanate of Oman announced that a person had been found dead in Wadi Al Batha in the Wilayat of Jaalan Bani Bu Ali in the South Al Sharqiyah Governorate, bringing the total number of deaths due to… Bad weather To 17 deaths.
The amount of water retained in the dams located in the governorates of Muscat, North and South Al Sharqiyah, Al Dakhiliyah, Al Dhahirah and South Al Batinah reached 30,955 million cubic metres, due to the weather condition that the Sultanate of Oman is currently experiencing.
Khalid bin Salem Al-Hooti, Director of the Water Resources Control Department at the Ministry of Agricultural Wealth, Fisheries and Water Resources, explained that dams differ in their capacity to absorb the amount of retained water, and that most of them are full, especially those located in the governorates of Al-Sharqiyah, Muscat, Al-Dhahirah and Al-Dakhiliyah.
He added in a statement to the Oman News Agency that the Ministry is working to empty a number of dams and then close them before any weather condition to store the incoming quantities of water, and what exceeds the capacity will come out through the dams’ overflows to flow into the valleys. Then, after the situation ends, the dams’ gates are opened to leak water and feed the underground reservoir below. Dam.
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