Under the Convention “Improved management of water resources in agriculture to ensure food security in the Palestinian Territories and Jordan”, financed by AECID and implemented by the FPSC, together with local partners, Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC), The Euro-Arab Network for Development and Integration (READI) and the Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD), this month has ended the construction of 22 pear-shaped cisterns for water supply in the governorates of Balqa and Karak, Jordan.
These tanks, with capacity of 40 cubic meters each, have a depth of up to 5 meters, depending on the rock type beneath them, and are particularly suitable to domestic water supply.
To monitor the finish of the tank construction, Carlos López Cecilia, Technical Project Coordinator CTO of Amman, along with staff JOHUD, the builder of the tanks, members of the association, a representative ofthe municipality of Shihan, and the FPSC expatriate in Jordan, Marco Rotunno, visited rural households in the Shihan area in Balqa. Prior to the visit, a meeting was held at the headquarters of the association of Shihan, which counted the improvements made through the work of construction of such tanks.
At the end of the day, the Ambassador of Spain in Amman, H. E. Javier Sangro de Liniers, was invited to visit rural households of the beneficiaries of the Convention.