AMMAN —
Chair of the
Lower House Water and Agriculture Committee, Muhammad Al-Alaqmeh
said he will head a delegation to Syria for talks on providing Jordan with its
water needs in the summer of this year, according to Jo24.
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Alaqmeh added that the committee has addressed
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
Ayman Safadi to carry out the
necessary diplomatic arrangements for the visit, indicating that “the committee
will knock every door to solve the water crisis in the Kingdom”.
Alaqmeh added that the current rainfall season
remains low and that dams have filled up to a mere 45 percent of its
capacity. He said Jordan’s dams can take
up to 366 million cubic meters at best, but that this figure would drop to 250
million cubic meters after crossing out Al-Karamah dam and extracting the
amount of sediment buildup in the dams due to lack of maintenance.
Alaqmeh said subsequent governments have not devised a
proper water strategy to deal with
Jordan’s water situation, which remains
critical. He said the committee will
communicate with neighboring countries to provide the Kingdom with its water
needs pending the start of the
Water Conveyance Project, and the construction
of new dams, as per the committee’s recommendation.
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