UN expert urges long-term, rights-based approach to water crisis in JordanUN News Centre
Jordan's water resources are estimated at a long-term average value of 8191 MCM/year. Groundwater accounts for about 61% of water supply. Water scarcity threatens Jordan's development. About 93.5% of the country receives less than 200 mm of rainfall, and only 0.7% of the country has annua...
Jordan is heading towards a serious water crisis, facing a freshwater deficit of about 712 million m 3 per year by 2050. Seawater desalination is the only suitable option to mitigate water scarcity in the region. However, Jordan has only a short coastline at Aqaba in the South, at a great...
Stolen Water(2016) Short|15 min|Short Edit pageAdd to list Track The film sheds light on water theft in Jordan, exploring why and how people steal water. Also taking a peek at the Syrian refugee crisis, and how this has taken a toll on the country's water supply. ...
At the same time, Jordan's economy has suffered considerably under the economic crisis, and as an emerging economy is not able to independently finance projects to improve water management and access to safe drinking water over the long term. Jordan will therefore be heavily dependent on foreign...
According to the UN, nearly one in three people worldwide live in a country facing a water crisis, and less than five percent of the world lives in a country that has more water today than it did 20 years ago. Lana Mazahreh grew up in Jordan, a stat...
The widespread and unjust drinking water and clean water crisis in the United States Article Open access 22 June 2021 Introduction Underinvestment and uneven access to water and wastewater infrastructure are shaped by local governance. The U.S. is one of the only countries in the world with lar...
This chapter aims at providing an overview of the uses and the state of the water resources in the Lower Jordan Basin. The years 2007/2008 serve as a base line to describe the specific situation, marked by a succession of drought years during the first decade of the twenty-first century....
As time passed, countries managed the crisis in different ways, taking various approaches to gradually open essential and non-essential activities, and reinstating restrictions following relapses. Today, inadequate prevention and control of COVID-19 is still hampering economic growth and social ...
In: Jordan A, Lenschow A (eds) Innovation in environment policy: integrating the environment for sustainability. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham Google Scholar Ross A (2012) Water connecting people adapting: integrated surface water and groundwater management in the Murray-Darling Basin, Colorado and ...