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Water in Jordan
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Problems
Water in Jordan
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Problems
Solutions
Solutions
infrastructure repair
- 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).
Disi Water Conveyance
Agriculture
Poor water retention
Zaatari
- Camp opened July 28, 2012
- 2012 recorded 30,000 refugees
- December 4, 2016 recorded 79,474 refugees
- 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
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- Pump 2.2 x 10 gal of water per year from aquifers on Saudi border to Amman.
- Water is radioactive
- Aquifer is not recharged
Water per capita
Red to Dead
Refugee population
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