disi project to provide jordan with high quality drinking water
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King Abdullah inaugurates huge water project

Disi project to provide Jordan with high quality drinking water

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Jordan's King Abdullah II (C) inaugurates a water pumping station in Amman
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Jordan's King Abdullah II (C) inaugurates a water pumping station in Amman Parched Jordan on Wednesday officially inaugurated a near-billion-dollar project to supply the capital with water from an ancient southern aquifer to help meet a chronic shortage .
King Abdullah II pushed the start button to begin pumping water from the 300,000-year-old Disi aquifer, 325 kilometres (200 miles) south of Amman.
"The Disi project will provide the capital and other governorates with 100 million cubic metres (3.5 billion cubic feet) of high quality drinking water every year," water minister Hazem Nasser told a ceremony.
"This amount covers 20 to 25 percent of Jordan's drinking water needs."
He said Turkey's GAMA Energy firm built the water system in 48 months.
The water ministry started an experimental pumping of water from wells of the Disi aquifer last Wednesday.
Officials say the much-awaited $990 million project required 250,000 tonnes of steel and the digging of 55 wells to pump water from Disi to Amman, where the per capita daily consumption of its 2.2 million population is 160 litres (42 gallons).
The water ministry says Jordan, where 92 percent of the land is desert, will need 1.6 billion cubic metres of water a year to meet its requirements by 2015, while the population of 6.8 million is growing by almost 3.5 percent a year.
The demand for water is constantly rising in Jordan, which mainly depends on rainfall and is currently home to more than 500,000 Syrian refugees.
A 2008 study by Duke University, in the United States, shows that Disi's water has 20 times more radiation than is considered safe, with radium content that could trigger cancers.
But the government and some independent experts have brushed aside such concerns, stressing that Disi water can be treated by diluting it with an equal amount of water from other sources.
Source: AFP

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