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April 21, 2008
Jordon to Spend $990 Million to Assure Amman Water
Jordon's Water Minister Raed Abu Soud announced yesterday that a project to make certain the capital city of Amman (pictured) would have potable water in the future.
"The capital will get water from the aquifer for the coming 100 years," he said, adding the project was expected to be completed within three-and-a-half years.
Abu Soud said a Turkish firm, GAMA Energy, has been contracted to extract 100 million cubic meters of water each year from the 300,000 year old Disi aquifer, which lies 325 kilometers south of Amman.
Jordon, where 92% of the land is desert, depends mainly on rainfall for its fresh water, yet has experienced in the past two years a decline in rainfall amounting to virtually half the required amount.
Global warming issues like this make it very important for Jordon to take on a water project of this size at this time, as reported by Agence France-Presse and published by Dow Jones & Company.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at April 21, 2008 03:01 PM
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