The water was pumped out from the lake by the Mineral Resources Company during the basalt extraction process, pumped out into Um Rafa'a canal (one of the small canals branching from Ismailia canal) to irrigate the village's agricultural lands. However, its relatively high salinity, which was not suitable for the irrigation of some corps led to weakness of the agricultural production of this area .Pumping out of water was stopped later causing the water level to rise in the lake, threatening to flood the neighboring village. The government construct a water weir to drain the excess water at Bahr al-Bakr Drain, which is about half a kilometer from the lake.