Jordan: French-led group in main deal for water-short Jordan | World Information

AMMAN: One of many world’s driest nations, signed an settlement on Sunday with French-led traders to construct one of many world’s largest desalination vegetation.
Jordan’s official Petra information company referred to as it the nation’s biggest-ever infrastructure mission, which Prime Minister Jafar Hassan has instructed Parliament is valued at greater than $5 billion.
French infrastructure specialist Meridiam lead the mission in partnership with SUEZ, Orascom Building and VINCI Building Grands Projets.
On its web site, Meridiam mentioned the mission would provide greater than 300 million cubic metres of consuming water to Amman and Aqaba, serving in extra of three million individuals.
“This mission will enhance the entire annual accessible home water provide by virtually 60 per cent” for households, and also will embrace about 445 kilometres (276 miles) of pipelines to move the desalinated water from the Pink Sea, Meridiam mentioned.
Jordan’s Water and Irrigation Minister Raed Abu al-Saud emphasised the mission’s “transformative potential”, noting it might “mark a major shift in Jordan’s water safety panorama”, in accordance with Petra.
The mission will take about 4 years to finish, the prime minister mentioned final month.
It follows Jordan’s pullout from a plan that may have linked the Useless Sea and Pink Sea by pipes in Jordan.
In 2013, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians signed a memorandum of understanding on that mission, which included plans to construct a desalination plant on the Pink Sea.
However in opposition to the backdrop of fashionable anger in Jordan resulting from stagnation within the Israeli-Palestinian peace course of, then-water minister Mohammad al-Najjar in June 2021 mentioned the Pink Sea-Useless Sea mission was “now a factor of the previous”.