AMMAN — The
Ministry of Water and Irrigation has prepared a
proposal to amend the water tariff and introduce specific tiers for water
users, in preparation for its submission to the
Council of Ministers for
approval, according to a document related to the executive program for the
economic modernization vision.
اضافة اعلان
As stated in the document, reviewed by
"Al-Mamlaka," this tariff amendment is part of "preparing the
financial sustainability plan for the water sector to achieve water efficiency
and self-sustainability."
The earlier stages of the
economic modernization vision's
executive program indicated that the government plans to approve the water
tariff amendment in September of the current year Nabd reported.
National water
strategy
Earlier this year, the
Ministry of Water and Irrigation
announced its intention to "gradually raise" the water tariff over
the coming years, affirming that there would be "no change" to the
tariff during the current year.
In March, the Cabinet approved the
National Water Strategy (2023-2040) after an "in-depth study of the water situation and the
significant scarcity suffered by the Kingdom in water, and the limited
resources in contrast to the increasing demand."
The document also highlights "efforts towards several
projects and measures to reduce assaults on water sources, curb theft, and
subsequently decrease non-revenue water loss, which will help achieve the
objectives of the
financial sustainability plan."
Water loss prevention
The document reports that non-revenue water loss was reduced
by 2.27 percent during the first quarter of the current year, and work is
ongoing to measure the results for the second quarter of 2023.
This comes after implementing a strategy to reduce
non-revenue water loss through rehabilitating water networks in various regions
of the Kingdom, including
rehabilitation of water networks in Irbid, Ramtha,
Al-Salt, and others, in addition to taking numerous measures for enforcement
against assaults and theft, and replacing meters, as mentioned in the document.
The document also addresses the "amendment of the
groundwater monitoring system, which included raising the extraction tariff
after the free quantity to 6 piasters, and reducing the free water
quantity."
It further highlights the "modification and approval of
the principles of drilling saline groundwater wells in the
Jordan Valley,
including expanding the geographic scope of the saline wells area to include
the southern Ghor region."
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