Petra – Jul 23,2015 – AJLOUN — A fire in the Um Al Mayadin area on the Ajloun-Kufranjeh road destroyed 100 perennial trees on Thursday, according to Ajloun Civil Defence Director Col. Hani Smadi. The fire, an act of arson, extended over 10 dunums and destroyed endangered trees like Greek junipers, pistacia, maple and oak, […]

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AMMAN — Ajloun Civil Defence Department (CDD) firefighters dealt with 32 fires in forests and on farmlands during the Eid Al Fitr holiday, Ajloun CDD Director Col. Hani Smadi said Wednesday. The fires destroyed hundreds of trees as well as dried grass, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, quoted Smadi as saying, and adding that there […]

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The holy river streams from the Himalayas, passing through 29 Indian cities and picking up more contaminants in each. By Ruth Schuster | Jul. 20, 2015 Israeli cleantech might yet come to the rescue of the sacred but polluted goddess river Ganges, an Israeli envoy told the Indian press Sunday. An Israeli delegation of water […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/22/2015 By covering a large portion of the traffic artery with a green park, the city said it aims to both connect the municipality’s eastern and western portions and create a cultural hub. Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s Local Committee for Planning and Building has approved a plan to transform the city’s jampacked Ayalon Highway […]

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Israeli water firms head to California to help combat drought – Jerusalem Post By SHARON UDASIN 07/18/2015 “California is facing a severe drought after several arid years,” said Gili Ovadia, consul in the Israel Economic Mission to the West Coast. A delegation of Israeli water companies headed to California on Thursday, in order to promote […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/22/2015 David Quarrey launches programs just nine days after assuming his post as ambassador. In one of his first initiatives as British ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey inaugurated on Wednesday three collaborative science programs, primarily focusing on water research. Among the new plans is a £200,000 British Council Trilateral Water Scheme to […]

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By Espen Barth Eide, Anja Kaspersen | WEF Agenda Blog Tuesday, 14 July 2015 One in every three barrels of exported crude petroleum still comes from the Middle East. Yet significant shifts in this sector are transforming the geopolitical equation of oil in the region: • The U.S. is not as reliant on the region […]

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Osama Habib| The Daily Star BEIRUT: A senior U.S. official said that Washington would continue its efforts to end the row between Lebanon and Israel over a maritime zone believed to contain large quantities of natural gas. “Based upon my ongoing discussions with both sides I believe that both Lebanon and Israel wish to resolve […]

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By Mohammad Ghazal – Jul 14,2015 – Last updated at Jul 14,2015 AMMAN — No progress is expected this year between Jordan and Noble Energy to import natural gas from Israel, according to Jamal Gammoh, head of the Lower House Energy Committee. “After signing the letter of intent last year between the National Electric Power […]

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By JT – Jul 12,2015 – Last updated at Jul 12,2015 AMMAN —Jordan’s energy crisis has had its most profound impact on public debt, which rose from less than 60 per cent of the gross domestic product in 2009 to over 80 per cent of the GDP by 2014, according to a report. In its […]

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By Petra – Jul 16,2015 – Last updated at Jul 16,2015 AMMAN — Labour Ministry Secretary General Hamadah Abu Nijmeh on Thursday inaugurated the first phase of the solar cells project that was set up and activated at the ministry’s main building earlier this month. Abu Nijmeh said that the project is a response to […]

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By JT – Jul 13,2015 – Last updated at Jul 13,2015 AMMAN — The Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development and the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development have agreed to the increase in the total generating capacity for the projects of the wind energy in Maan and solar cells in Quweirah to 180 megawatts (MW), […]

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By Khetam Malkawi – Jul 14,2015 – Last updated at Jul 14,2015 AMMAN — France has just validated a new soft loan of $265 million to Jordan to implement three major water and energy projects, French Ambassador to the Kingdom Caroline Dumas announced on Monday. Of this amount, Dumas said 150 million euros ($167 million) […]

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AMMAN — HRH Crown Prince Hussein, the Regent, on Sunday inaugurated the Mujib Dam Water Conveyance Project that is going to channel water from the dam to Karak, 140km south of Amman. The project, which cost JD11 million funded by a grant from the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development, will enhance water supply to […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jul 14,2015 AMMAN — Authorities have discovered several violations on the water network in the Amman, Ajloun and Balqa governorates, under which a total of 15,000 cubic metres of water were being stolen daily, a government official said on Monday. The violations, which were discovered this week, entailed digging illegal wells […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jul 15,2015 – Last updated at Jul 15,2015 AMMAN — The Ministry of Water and Irrigation has invited proposals for providing technical, legal, financial and transactional consulting services for the tendering of the first phase of the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project (Red-Dead). “Under the request for proposal, the ministry […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/09/2015 “The army does not carry out enforcement, and is even irritated by such enforcement,” says Environmental Protection deputy director for enforcement. An Environmental Protection Ministry official accused the IDF on Wednesday of being the country’s top environmental offender. “The IDF today is the biggest environmental wrongdoer in Israel,” Yitzhak Ben-David, the […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jul 09,2015 – Last updated at Jul 09,2015 A farm and a swimming pool that were utilising water stolen from water mains via illegal fixtures (Photo courtesy of Water Ministry) AMMAN — In the first ruling ever in the history of the water sector, the Amman Court of First Instance has […]

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AMMAN — After three years of experiments, the University of Jordan (UJ) has succeeded in using the jojoba shrub to generate biofuel. In a joint research project, the university’s renewable energy and chemical engineering departments have developed an oil extraction machine to produce biofuel from the shrub, according to a UJ statement sent to The […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/09/2015 Three Haifa Bay plants showed unacceptably high air pollution emissions levels. The Environmental Protection Ministry issued indictments on Thursday against three factories owned by Israel Oil Refineries Ltd., also known as the Bazan Group, citing numerous air pollution and toxic waste treatment violations between 2010 and 2013. Measurements taken at the […]

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