Symposium Announcement
Enabling Environment for Decentralized Wastewater Management
May 7th, 2017
Landmark Hotel -Amman, Jordan
A main response for water scarcity and climate change makes best use of water resources through “integrated water resources management”. In this regard, reallocating water towards domestic and industrial sectors -rather than agriculture- may be a critical way to adjust to water scarcity and enhance water availability. Jordan has established a stand-alone reallocation policy and substitution policy on 2015. The trend is reallocating fresh water for domestic use and allocating non-conventional water, such as treated wastewater, to agriculture.
Full valorization of wastewater in agriculture requires integrated planning, which is likewise critical to meet country’s obligations to many SDGs, particularly SDG6 on water and sanitation. Notwithstanding that Jordan has a good match between collected and treated wastewater, there is still a high demand outside large cities and in newly urbanized areas to receive better services. The country had established a policy to provide proper sanitation services for communities with population less than 5,000 inhabitants. It should be noted that the implementation of decentralized wastewater management systems calls for an enabling environment that starts with governmental support and ends at socio-cultural acceptance of such management scheme.
Symposium. The Ministry of Water and Irrigation in cooperation with GIZ’s ACC project and Jordan Engineers Association are pleased to announce a symposium on enabling environment for the implementation of decentralized sanitation management systems. The symposium will take place on May 7th, 2017 at the Landmark hotel, Amman. It is planned as one of the activities associated with the 7th Civil Engineering Conference on reconstruction of damaged zones and will give the audience an introduction to the requested enabling environments for the implementation of decentralized wastewater management options. The symposium will host experts from Canada, Germany, Egypt and Jordan to discuss all main themes of the enabling environment. It will be divided into two main presentation sessions followed by a panel discussion where audience will have the chance to further discuss the topic and interact with the speakers.