AMMAN: One of the world’s driest nations, signed an settlement on Sunday with French-led buyers to construct one of many world’s largest desalination vegetation.
Jordan’s official Petra information company known 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 Construction and VINCI Construction Grands Projets.
On its web site, Meridiam stated the mission would provide greater than 300 million cubic metres of ingesting water to Amman and Aqaba, serving in extra of three million folks.
“This mission will enhance the overall annual accessible home water provide by virtually 60 per cent” for households, and also will embody about 445 kilometres (276 miles) of pipelines to move the desalinated water from the Red Sea, Meridiam stated.
Jordan’s Water and Irrigation Minister Raed Abu al-Saud emphasised the mission’s “transformative potential”, noting it could “mark a big shift in Jordan’s water safety panorama”, in keeping with Petra.
The mission will take about 4 years to finish, the prime minister stated final month.
It follows Jordan’s pullout from a plan that will have linked the Dead Sea and Red 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 Red Sea.
But towards the backdrop of well-liked anger in Jordan attributable to stagnation within the Israeli-Palestinian peace course of, then-water minister Mohammad al-Najjar in June 2021 stated the Red Sea-Dead Sea mission was “now a factor of the previous”.
