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The present total water supplied for household use in Jordan is 420 MCM/year. This includes the physical losses from the water supply network incurred by corrosion and damage and the stealing of water (water theft). According to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, these total losses (unaccounted for water) amount to 47% of all the supplied water (MWI 2016). Most of the stolen water is used in irrigation and only a very small percentage for household uses.
The text of this chapter is based on Salameh and Banayan (1993) and Salameh (1996). Measurements and numbers are updated (MWI open files and from own analyses).
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MWI (Ministry of Water and Irrigation) Jordan. Open files (2016)
Salameh E (1996) Water quality degradation in Jordan. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Amman and Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, Amman, 179 p
Salameh E, Bannayan H (1993) Water resources of Jordan – present status and future potentials. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Amman, 183 p
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Salameh, E., Shteiwi, M., Al Raggad, M. (2018). Patterns of Water Use. In: Water Resources of Jordan. World Water Resources, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77748-1_3
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