AANES re-operates Tishrin dam on Syria’s Euphrates 4 hours per day
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – An official of the General Administration of Dams, affiliated with Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), said on Wednesday that they will partially re-operate Tishrin Dam and feed areas with electricity only four hours a day.
Imad Ubaid, an official in the Administration, said that they will re-operate the dam “partially.”
On March 1, the Administration issued a decision to stop Tishrin Dam one week after its reservoir hit dead level, which is caused by severe shortage of water flow from Turkey.
Ubaid told North Press, in a statement, that the dam will feed the areas with electricity four hours a day, starting from 7 till 11 pm.
On Feb. 23, Ubaid said they were seriously discussing a mechanism to stop sporadically the Tishrin Dam owing to sharp low levels of water in the lakes.
At the time, Ubaid told North Press that lowering levels of water coming from Turkey has obliged the AANES to do that, adding they have a priority to secure drinking and irrigating water for people of North and East Syria.
Earlier, Hammoud Hammadin, an administrator at Tishrin, told North Press that the water level at the dam is now 320.30 m, which is only 30 cm off of the so-called “dead level.”
Since February 2020, Turkey has withheld water from the Euphrates River, breaching a 1987 treaty which entails Syria and Iraq should receive 500 cubic meters per second of water. At this moment, only 200 cubic meters is being let through by Turkey.