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Jordan Plans Multi-Billion Dollar Aqaba to Amman Desalination Project Amid Water Crisis
September 29th, 2023
Via The National News, an article on Jordan’s plans to build a multi-billion dollar Aqaba to Amman desalination project amid its water crisis: Along a long and dusty motorway, connecting Jordan‘s capital Amman with the south of the country, is a pipeline that provides much needed water to hundreds of thousands of people. The controversial $1.1 billion […]
Read more »Amman’s Lost Water
August 27th, 2023
Courtesy of Places Journal, a detailed look at Jordan’s desert city of Amman which is running out of water while officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dysfunctions can be escaped rather than addressed: Water arrives to my house in Amman on Tuesday evenings. I breathe a sigh of relief when […]
Read more »Jordan’s Black Market for Drinking Water
August 17th, 2023
Via EurekaAlert, a new article quantifying the black market for drinking water in Jordan: IMAGE: THE PAIRS OF BARS SHOW THAT THE FULL GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTIONS FOR TANKER DELIVERIES ESTIMATED WITH THE UFZ MODEL FOR 2015 (PINK) SUBSTANTIALLY EXCEEDED THE LICENSED GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTIONS (GREEN) IN JORDAN’S SIX MONITORED GROUNDWATER BASINS. THE DIFFERENCE IS PARTICULARLY LARGE IN THE […]
Read more »Trading Water for Sun
April 25th, 2023
Courtesy of the Wilson Quarterly, a look at how the Abraham Accords opened the door for a green energy exchange between Israel and Jordan: Water scarcity has marked the relationship between Israel and Jordan since a peace treaty was signed between the two nations in 1994. With Israel’s desalination capacity surging and Jordan’s water supply growing scarcer, […]
Read more »In Middle East, Rising Temperatures and Climate Cooperation
February 15th, 2023
Via Diplomatic Courier, commentary that – instead of driving tensions and even war between nations – climate change may actually bring nations closer together: In September 2020, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain signed a diplomatic normalization agreement widely known as the Abraham Accords. Afterwards, other Arab countries, such as Sudan and Morocco, started […]
Read more »Israel Refills the Sea of Galilee, Supplying Jordan On The Way
February 3rd, 2023
Via Reuters, an article on Israel’s efforts to refill the Sea of Galilee: When the floodgates are open, a torrent of water gushes into a dry river bed and races to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a biblical lake in northern Israel that was being lost to drought and the growing population around […]
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