The Sidi El Barrak Dam is an

embankment dam An embankment dam is a large artificial dam. It is typically created by the placement and compaction of a complex semi-plastic mound of various compositions of soil or rock. It has a semi-pervious waterproof natural covering for its surface and ...

centred northeast of Tabarak and from the

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on the Oued Zouara River in the

Beja Governorate Beja may refer to: Ethnicity *Beja people, an ethnic group in northeast Africa **Blemmyes, historical name for this people in the ancient world *Beja language, language spoken by the Beja people *Beja Congress, a group formed primarily of Beja opp ...

, Tunisia. Constructed between 1994 and 2000, the primary purpose of the dam is water supply. As part of the Sidi el Barrak Development Project water stored in the dam is pumped to the Seyjame Dam, at a rate of annually. This water is supplied to

Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...

Cap Bon Cape Bon ("Good Cape") is a peninsula in far northeastern Tunisia, also known as Ras at-Taib ( ar, الرأس الطيب), Sharīk Peninsula, or Watan el Kibli; Cape Bon is also the name of the northernmost point on the peninsula, also known as Ra ...

and the

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including

Sfax Sfax (; ar, صفاقس, Ṣafāqis ) is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD849 on the ruins of Berber Taparura, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate (about 955,421 inhabitants in 2014), and a Mediterran ...

for municipal use along with other agricultural purposes. The entire project was completed in 2002.

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Dams in Tunisia Embankment dams Dams completed in 2000 Ramsar sites in Tunisia 2000 establishments in Tunisia {{Africa-dam-stub