Russians to cooperate on Jordan desalination
Desalination plants were included in a nuclear cooperation agreement
signed on 22 May 2009 by Russia and Jordan, which also included power
stations, research facilities and personnel training centres to be
built in Jordan.
This followed an announcement on 17 May 2009, at the World Economic
Forum in Amman, that the Aquaba desalination project is expected to
start construction in late 2010.
Jordanian Atomic Energy Commission chief Khaled Toukan told
reporters last week, "The signed agreement (with Russia) is the
beginning of major strategic cooperation between the two countries. We
have started negotiations on various areas of cooperation, but the most
important of them is the construction of a nuclear power plant for
production of electric power and of a desalination station."
Talking about the Aqaba project to the Jordan Times,
Skip Holland, senior vice-president and managing executive of MWH
Global, the project management company, is quoted as saying,
"Construction on the project, which entails five phases and will be
built on a BOT basis, is expected to be completed within 25-30 years".
Private sector companies would carry out the project with the
support of the Ministry of Water & Irrigation and the Jordan Atomic
Energy Commission, while funding of the project was still under
examination, he added. The water will eventually be pumped all the way
to Amman.
"The first phase includes taking water from the Red Sea
through pipelines to a desalination facility which will be built in
Aqaba," said Holland, quoting a flow of 120 million m³/year rising to
700 million m³/year.
However, according to Eng Rateb Edwan, the Head of the
Desalination Section at the Ministry of Water & Irrigation, the
design capacity of the plant is only 7 million m³/year.
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News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://www.desalination.biz/news/news_story.asp?id=4879 |
Source of information | Desalination.biz |
Keyword(s) | Desalination plants |
Subject(s) | DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , INFRASTRUCTURES , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES |
Relation | http://www.emwis.org/countries/fol749974/country045975 |
Geographical coverage | Jordan |
News date | 27/05/2009 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |