AMMAN —
The National Water Carrier Project, a prospective Amman-Aqaba water conveyance
venture, is making significant progress in funding, mobilization and completion
of technical procedures, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Water and
Irrigation Jihad Mahamid was quoted by the Jordan News Agency, Petra, as saying
on Tuesday.
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Mahamid said that
the project will be conducted using a build-operate-transfer (BOT) model,
adding that five prequalified consortia have been selected to present their
proposals.
Bidders’ offers
will be presented by the end of the year, and financial, and all other
procedural requirements will have to be completed before the project could
begin, he said, stressing that the desalination of the Red Sea water is the
only national, safe, and sustainable source of water.
The project is
part of the government’s Economic Priorities Program (2021-2023), he said,
adding that several meetings with international multilateral financiers were
held to discuss the project.
On March 16, the
ministry sent a request for proposal (RFP) for the construction of the 450-km
pipeline project that will pump over 300 million cubic meters of desalinated
seawater annually from the Red Sea port of Aqaba to Amman and elsewhere across
the Kingdom.
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