Feb 28,2018 AMMAN — Renewable energy projects provided the Kingdom’s national power grid with 402 megawatts of electricity in 2017, which is expected to increase to 1,700 megawatts by 2019, Energy Minister Saleh Kharabsheh said on Wednesday. In a statement following a visit to the Sahara Forest Project (SFP), Kharabsheh said that Jordan is rich […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Mar 04,2018 AMMAN — In two weeks from now, a 15-dunum plot of land which suffered illegal logging and wildfires over the past decade, rendering it bare, is scheduled to be rehabilitated back to its once-thick forest status, conservationists said on Saturday. The vacant tract, except for trunks of chopped and […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Mar 04,2018 AMMAN — Authorities have sealed an illegal well found hidden inside a hanger in a private farm in Irbid Governorate, a government official said on Saturday. A team from the Ministry of Water and Irrigation/the Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ) and security forces on Friday morning raided the location […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Mar 08,2018 AMMAN — The Ministry of Water and Irrigation is searching for donor agencies to fund a 200-million-dollar expansion for As-Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant, Jordan’s largest sewage treatment facility, according to government officials. The expansion seeks to meet the demands of the ever-increasing discharge of wastewater in the central region, […]

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New routes target areas around BRT stations, public transport lines in ‘feeder-line’ approach By Ana V. Ibáñez Prieto – Mar 05,2018 AMMAN — The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) on Saturday announced measures to improve the public transportation service in residential areas within its administrative boundaries, waiving the previous permits granted to fixed-route taxis to expand […]

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