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Problems

1) Despite increases in production, the agriculture sector’s share of the economy has declined steadily to just 3.78 percent of gross domestic product by 2014.

2) About 4 percent of Jordan’s labor force worked in the agricultural sector in 2002.

3) Approximately 25% of Jordan’s total population that would be classified as poor rely on agriculture as the families main source of income or food.

4) 28% (300,000 migrants) of the migrant labor force are working in the agriculture sector, most of whom are Egyptian laborers

Agriculture

Refugee population

Zaatari

  • Camp opened July 28, 2012
  • 2012 recorded 30,000 refugees
  • December 4, 2016 recorded 79,474 refugees

Water in Jordan

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Problems

Water per capita

Poor water retention

Solutions

Solutions

Red to Dead

infrastructure repair

  • Will cost 10 billion dollars
  • Over 100 miles long
  • The pipeline would carry over 2 billion cubic meter per year
  • Jordan produces 880 billion cubic meters of water right now
  • Will employ about 1700 people

Disi Water Conveyance

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  • The amount of water lost every year could satisfy more than a third or Jordan's population
  • Approximately 50% is lost nation wide
  • The estimated cost of infrastructure repair in Amman is one billion dollars (2014).
  • Pump 2.2 x 10 gal of water per year from aquifers on Saudi border to Amman.
  • Water is radioactive
  • Aquifer is not recharged
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