AMMAN — The
Ministry of Water and Irrigation has orga-nized a workshop on facing the challenges of water
shortage-seeking af-fective and sustainable solutions for agriculture and water
in 2050. The workshop was attended by the Ambassador of the Netherlands to
Jor-dan Harry Verweij.
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According to a statement issued by the ministry on
Monday, Minister
Mohammed Najjar underlined that the ministry’s strategy is
working ef-fectively to handle various challenges facing the water sector,
including the water shortages due to climate change.
He noted that climate change and a drop in rainfall
annual average of more than 50 percent had dried up many groundwater in the
Kingdom.
Najjar said that water challenges increase as needs
increase, and the sec-tor management is in the process of revising and updating
strategies to adapt to various challenges such as population growth, the Syrian
crisis, climate change and finding alternative water sources such as the
national water carrier, desalination of seawater, in addition to untraditional
sources such as sewage water treatment for use in irrigation.
He stressed the importance of coordination among the
various relevant bodies in order to set priorities and needs with the
participation of all parties in order to produce practical programs that would
be reflected in improved performance in all sectors.
For his part, the
Dutch ambassador said that his
country is interested in cooperation with partners to deal with global and
local water challenges, indicating that this workshop came in collaboration
with the leading Dutch academic institution, Wageningen University &
Research, and it aims at holding dialogue sessions between stakeholders and
different ac-tors in order to come up with recommendations, which Jordan can bene-fit
from in policy-making and implementation.
The ambassador said that the embassy in Jordan is a
supporter of such dialogues concerning polices as part of its water programs,
which aim at joint work with the Jordanian government to address the water crisis
in the Kingdom.
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