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Ministry of Water and Irrigation Jordan

Ministry of Water and Irrigation Jordan. World Meteorological Organization Blue Peace- Water Security in the Middle East Project Coordination Meeting Current Status of Hydrological and Meteorological Information Systems in Jordan Secretary General Assistant of Technical Affairs

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Ministry of Water and Irrigation Jordan

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  1. Ministry of Water and IrrigationJordan World Meteorological Organization Blue Peace- Water Security in the Middle East Project Coordination Meeting Current Status of Hydrological and Meteorological Information Systems in Jordan Secretary General Assistant of Technical Affairs Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Eng. Ali Subah 24-26 January 2013Geneve, Switzerland

  2. Direction of Groundwater movement Jordan among the 4 most water-scarce countries in theworld Jordan Side Valley demand outstrips supply by 200% Yarmouk Hammad Amman-Zarqa Jordan Valley Azraq Dead Sea annual per capita water availability of 120 – 145 m3 Northern Wadi Araba Sahran Jafr Southern Wadi Araba DISI & Mudawarra

  3. Challenges • Population growth (2.5%/year) and large refugee influxes. • Rising water needs for expanding economic sectors, such as industry and tourism. • High rate of non-revenue-water at around 40%. • Limited funding and private sector participation. • Coordination with neighboring countries of shared water resources. • Cooperation and Coordination between the Water related Agencies • Limited energy sources and high dependency on foreign sources (96% of energy comes from imported oil and gas ). • Climate change predictions: 20-25% decrease and strong variability of rainfall; temperature rise of 2ºC • Long distances between areas of high consumption and of abstraction -> high transportation costs.

  4. Water consumption • Jordan is heavily dependent on groundwater resources (over 50% of supply). • 10 out of the 12 groundwater basins are over-exploited. • Agriculture is the largest water consumer with 56% of the water use in Jordan in 2011.

  5. Background • Hydro-meteorological data is essential for planning, design and implementation of all water related activities (improved resilience in case of extreme weather events) • Continuous hydro-meteorological measurements of good quality are necessary for climate records in the long term • “the existing climatic and water resources monitoring in the country is facing permanent problems in operation, slow modernization of equipment and reducing of the monitoring network” Second National Communication of Jordan to the UNFCCC, 2009

  6. Background Data Information Knowledge Decisions

  7. TeWaRON and NaWaROP • giz has been approached by MWI 2009 on helping to develop a concept for an implementation of a National Water Resources Observation Programme (NaWaROP). • As an important base element for future water sector management, MWI has decided to include a modern Telemetric Water Resources Observation Network facilitating sound data acquisition (TeWaRON)

  8. Basic characteristics of information aggregation to be achieved by NaWaROP TeWaRON and NaWaROP DecisionMaker Source of information Information product Reports Expert Level of Information Processed data Server Raw data Sensor

  9. TeWaRON • Telemetric monitoring for • Surface water • Ground water • Meteorological stations

  10. Current situation • how many stations of which type (ground water, meteorology, discharge) exist?

  11. TeWaRON: what has been achieved since 2009?

  12. Current situation

  13. Current situation • How is information communicated and shared?

  14. What are others doing? • RSS EMARCU • Meteorological Department

  15. What are others doing? RSS EMARCU Meteorological Department Cooperation is the Key!

  16. Next Steps • Measurement stations: • Enlargement of the hydro-meteorological measurement system through the erection of new measurement stations • Extension of existing measurement stations with a telemetric component • Improvement of the hydro-meteorological measurement system through the measurement of water quality parameters (possibly also at production wells of the Water Authority of Jordan WAJ) • Rehabilitation of existing measurement stations • Improvement of the measurement system of the Jordan Valley Authority JVA

  17. Next Steps • Computer-based data system • Improvement / new setup of the central database (Water Information System WIS) • Optimised interfaces between the WIS and other water-related information systems • Improvement of the system to control the quality of the measured data • Improvement of the possibility to analyse the data and to provide these data and analysis to the decision level and interested public (e. g. via internet) • Training of the staff

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