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 Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Eng. Ali Subah January 2013 Geneve, Switzerland

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

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.

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.

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 Background

DataInformationKnowledgeDecisions

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) TeWaRON and NaWaROP

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

Telemetric monitoring for Surface water Ground water Meteorological stations TeWaRON

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

TeWaRON: what has been achieved since 2009?

Current situation

How is information communicated and shared?

What are others doing? RSS EMARCU Meteorological Department

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

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

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