Khaberni - Water and Irrigation Minister Raed Abu Saud, during his tour today in the governorates of Karak and Tafila, emphasized that the ministry seriously follows all measures aimed at ensuring citizens obtain their water rights, as directed by the Prime Minister, and closely monitoring the needs of the citizens in all regions of the Kingdom, stressing the existence of serious government monitoring and measures to ensure the health of the citizen and securing potable water.
The minister added during his inspection of several areas in the Karak governorate, accompanied by the Water Director of Karak Governorate, Engineer Saddam Al-Harub, that ensuring the continuity of water supply to the areas according to the announced schedules with fairness, finding effective solutions, facilitating for the citizens, and quickly repairing network fractures, are a priority closely monitored by the government.
He instructed to quickly operate the Wadi Al-Karak wastewater treatment station and to complete the procedures urgently, and listened to an explanation of the progress of a number of projects, especially the Foukoua Networks Improvement Project valued at 6 million dinars, as well as the Mazar, Mutah, and Qasbah Al-Karak water and sewage network improvement projects, reaching new areas worth about half a million dinars, in addition to accelerating the equipment and rehabilitation of Mhay, Sultani, Lajoon, Qatraneh, and Southern Ghors wells before summer, at a cost of about 250 thousand dinars.
He also toured the Marood wastewater treatment station and reviewed the preparations for its readiness for the winter season, instructing collaboration with local farmers, facilitating their needs, and supplying them with about 2200 cubic meters of treated water daily for fodder cultivation.
In the governorate of Tafila, and during his inspection of a number of implemented projects, accompanied by the Water Director of Tafila, Engineer Rabie Al-Amayra, the minister reassured the locals that the ministry has been working for a while on finding a permanent solution to the Barbayta water problem, ensuring the provision of potable water for the locals, instructing to continue and increase the number of tankers to provide the locals in the area with their water needs through tankers, until the completion of establishing a treatment plant and a tank on Al-Hasa/Al-Tanur well, after urgently including it within the package of funded projects to be implemented in the southern governorates by the Jordan Phosphate Company, as part of its national and community participation in partnership between the public and private sectors, urging citizens to comply with the warning signs as the water is currently not potable.
He also listened from the Water Director of Tafila during the tour to an explanation about the progress of projects such as the Tafila Water Networks Rehabilitation and Improvement Project valued at 6.2 million dinars, Al-Eis networks valued at 6.7 million dinars, Al-Hasa water pumping stations rehabilitation project valued at 2.2 million dinars, and extending water to the areas of Qadisiyah and Al-Alamat in Grendel valued at 150 thousand dinars, and implementing the government hospital sewage project, and preparing a study of the water supply project for Greifa area in Ain Al-Bayda. He also toured Al-Tanur dam accompanied by the dam director, and confirmed the continuity of releasing water quantities to the farmers below the dam for irrigation of their crops.
