Water supply and water use statistics in
Jordan
Prepared b y
Khamis Raddad
Dep. Of Statistics
Jordan
International work session on water statistics
Vienna
20 – 22 June 2005

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Jordan receives rainfall of about 6,000 million cubic meters (MCM).
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The Syrian catchments of the Yarmouk river Basin receives an additional 2,065 MCM annual stream flow, amounting to only about 878
MCM
 proposed Al-Wehdeh Dam will provide an annual safe yield of about 105 MCM, 55 MCM for manufacturing and the remaining 50 MCM will be used to intensify agricultural production in the Jordan Valley.

Therefore, Jordan is consider among the poorest countries in the world in terms of water resources
 more than 90% of Jordan's total area receiving less than 200 millimeters rainfall per year
 more than 70% of the country receiving less than 100 millimeters of precipitation on a year.

 Only around 2% of the land area has an annual precipitation exceeding 300 millimeters
 renewable fresh water resources, average is about 680
MCM per year, or approximately 135 m 3 per capita for all uses.

1- Surface water supply
Public supply
 The annual supply of surface water is
214.69 MCM, the Jordan Rift Valley contribute on 108 MCM, ( 73.5%) is allocated for agriculture activity.
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 all treated waste water is allocated for irrigation purpose 75.4 MCM
Supply water for municipal use 54.4 CM, and industrial activity use about 2.5 MCM

Source
Table 1
*Quantity of surface water use by water resource 2004
1. Surface
Water
Livestock
6.00
Irrigation
151.85
Industrial
2.48
Municipal
54.37
-Jordan Rift
Valley
Springs
0.00
0.00
6.00
Base &
Flood
2. Treated
Waste
Water
0.00
67.35
41.10
43.40
75.4
-Registered
-Not
Registered
Total
0.00
0.00
6.00
67.40
8.00
226.25
0.00
0.00
2.48
*Source: M.O.W.I-Water Authority
2.14
0.34
0.00
0.00
38.61
15.76
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
54.37
total
214.69
108.09
57.20
49.40
75.40
67.40
8.00
289.09

The total quantity of ground water is 520 MCM. The agriculture sector use about
54% of ground water. The municipal use about 40% of ground water, and the remain
(6%) used for industrial activity.

Table 2
*Quantity of ground water use by water resource
2004
Livestock Irrigation Industrial Municipal total
Source
2. Ground
Water
- Renewable
0.64
278.70
0.64
210.25
- Non-
Renewable
0.00
*Source: M.O.W.I-Water Authority
68.45
33.27
29.20
4.07
207.45
192.74
14.71
520.05
432.83
87.22

 The depletion of water is vary from one ground water basin to another, in some basin the over pumping of ground water exceed 3 times of the safe yield, on the other hand the abstraction of water from other basins less than the safe yield.

Ground
Water
Basin
Safe
Yield
(M.C.M)
40.0
43.3
Table 3
Total water abstracted
(M.C.M)
Balance
3.3
Yarmouk
Side Valleys 15.0
25.9
10.9
-
%
Abstracted from
SafeYield
108.0
172.0
Jordan
Valley
Azraq
Amman-
Zarqa
21.0
24.0
87.5
27.9
59.3
138.7
6.9
-
35.3
-
51.2
-
133.0
247.0
158.0

Serhan
Total
5.0
Hammad 8.0
57.0
Dead Sea
Desi and
Mudawrah
North Araba
Valley
Red Sea\
South Araba
Valley
Jafer
125 ) 1 (
3.5
5.5
9.0
18 ) 1 (
275.5
82.1
6.7
17.4
3.8
0.9
89.3
24.8
520.1
42.9
3.2
-
11.9
-
1.2
7.1
32.3
-
15.8
-
170.805
-
76.0
11.0
157.0
66.0
193.0
316.0
276.0

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The total water use in Jordan increased by more than 27%,from 639 MCM in
1985 to 810 MCM in 2004
Water for municipal uses showed the highest increase in average annual water consumption (153 -262 MCM) and contribute on above 32% of total water use, and contribute on about
36% of fresh water use, it also register the highest increase in share of total water use by the time.

 Irrigation water for agriculture use 62
% during 2004
 Water use for livestock production has constitute only 0.8% of the total water use during 2004.
 The industrial sector contribute on
4.4% of total water use .

Some details information by using sample survey was acquired
Table 5
Quantity of water use by economic activity in industrial sector 2002
Economic Activity
Extraction of Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas
Mining and Quarrying
Manufacturing of Food Products and Beverages
Tanning and Dressing of Leather,
Manufacturing of Luggage Handbags Saddlery,
Harness and Footwear
Manufacturing of Paper, and Paper Products
Quantity of Used
Water CM
1,888.0
21,611,863.3
5,247,409.0
26,052.4
216,387.0

Publishing, Printing and Reproduction of Recorded Media
Manufacturing of Coke, Refined Petroleum
Products and Nuclear Fuel
Manufacturing of Other Non-Metalic
Mineral Products
Manufacturing of Basic Metals
Manufacturing of Fabricated Metal
Products, Except Machinery & Equipments
Manufacturing of Machinery and Equipments N.E.C.
Manufacturing of Electrical Machinery & Apparatus N.E.C.
Manufacturing of Motor Vehicles, Trailers & Semi–Trailers
Manufacturing of Furniture, & of Other Products N.E.C.
Electricity, Gases, Steam and Hot Water Supply
Total
66,646.6
17,413.0
4,720,370.4
342,110.3
179,495.7
69,569.5
63,762.0
13,795.0
99,868.5
493,161.0
33,169,791.6

 The survey on chemical manufacturing provide more details of water use by economic activity
( ISIC 4 Digit). This data indicate the quantity of water use for each activity by supply.

Economic Activity
Table 6
Quantity of Used Water in Manufacturing of Chemical Products,
Rubber and Plastic Products by Water Source, 2002 (M 3 )
Manufacturing of Vegetable & Animal Oil & Fat
Used Water CM
Total Distilled
Water
Well
114854
0 0
Tank
100130
Manufacturing of Basic Chemicals
Manufacturing of Fertilizers & Nitrogen Compounds
2447739
3687697
44008
4655
80
0
0
0
2288
983
3608
141
7400
0
146447
10606
20057
3990
Manufacturing of Plastics in Primary Forms
Manufacturing of Pesticides
Manufacturing of Paints, Varnishes, Similar
Coating, Printing Link & Mastics
Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals Medicinal
Chemicals & Botanical Products
665
202861
0
30
0
56086
55128
Manufacturing of Soap & Detergant & Cleaning Polishing 220395 3
5000
6
9050
0
88057
Preparations Perfumes & Toilet Preparation
Manufacturing of Other Chemical
Products N.E.C.
13241
0 0
10924
9264
2317
Public
System
14724
12229
68950
16551
665
97697
41834.8

Manufacturing of Rubber Tiers & Tubes
Manufacturing of Other Products
Manufacturing of Plastic Products
1800
0 0
905
234
895
1012 1246
0 0
148869
0
18000 83960.3
46908.2
Manufacturing of Accumulatores Primary
Cells & Primary Battaries
Total
42647
0
30300 1680 10667
6995361 113 6093330 578204.3
323714
Sources of data

Water supply and water use statistics in
Jordan a- administrative records b- survey method
Sample design
1-The frame
The 1999 economic enterprises census.
2 – stratification
All enterprises stratified by total revenue into 3 classes, it classified by paid capital, total employee, and it classified by activity 4 digit at the region level.

3 – sample design
All enterprises classified as big enterprises were surveyed by complete coverage
All enterprises with small number surveyed by complete coverage.
The enterprises remained were divided into middle and small size. After that in each stratum and in each size of enterprises the sampling units were selected.

4-Sample allocation
The Nyman allocation was applied
The systematic method was applied after ordering all sampling units in each stratum ascending by total revenue, to provide implicit stratification to increase the efficiency of the design.

Difficulties and Problems
1- Availability of data
- there are many gaps in the administrative records.
no disaggregating between both public and privet sectors.
- difficult to access to the available data.
2- The quality of data
-the data doesn’t comparable among different sources of data

3- The classification of the available data
- the ISIC and SNA classifications didn’t apply in the data base.
4- the cost of collecting data by survey method is very high.
5- huge requirements for any survey.
6-This work need skills in both statistics and water science which is not available.