Thanks for sharing such great insights from USAID on water security as a key to achieve the SDGs in MENA region. Investing in water security is critical to ensuring regional stability, promoting economic growth, and improve the daily lives for the residents of the MENA regions.

USAID is one of the largest aid agencies in the  MENA Region.  It contributes to several initiatives and regional programs in water and sanitation .  I found this article very insightful and informative as it gives some idea about  what USAID is doing in the MENA region. I would like to thank USAID for their vision and support for the middle east region. I believe  people in the Middle East are not fully aware of what USAID activities are!

I am glad to see that the water programs at the top list of priorities of USAID in the ME. These programs benefit all layers of societies in particular needy people and Women. Actually, this is what we need water and education.

Jordan and Lebanon have high priority for USAID’s water and sanitation! That is really interesting to know, i can not imagine what would be our situation without such support.

I am an active user for this nice forum but interested in the arabic page. Why we do not have an Arabic translation. I have shared this article in my facebook page, but people asking for translation.
Please let me know if you will add arabic translation. I tries to use google translate but it is really so bad, it gives not clear text. thank you

I have read before that one important solution for jordan is to connect the red sea and dead sea with a canal, but what is the progress of this project? does the USAID is part of this solution. This could provide drinking water to all north part of jordan. 

Yes, I agree with you, USAID is supporting Millions in our region, I hope this will continue... Thanks goes for USAID

I do not know that USAID is doing all this work, really 1 million thanks

Hi
I have just read this report and indeed very happy to learn that such achievements has been conducted in the MENA region.

Nice job USAID. what are you doing is really wonderful work

Yes Tarq-Asad, the article under processing for professional translation into Arabic. It should be ready within the coming days. Thanks

Thank you very much Dr. Hazim for your quick answer.
I am really sure that arabic translation will be very helpful for non-english speaking.
Thank you again

First of all, I hope this forum is transparent and will accept my comments. 
As you know water scarcity could render Gaza uninhabitable by 2020.
I really appreciate the effort the USAID is doing for the arabic countries but why they stopped their support for Palestinian ? Even they did not list Palestine in their report. 
Again I hope MEWF will not banned my comment! 
Thank you 

+1 aeead-hillis
I see your post is there, I respect this Forum, it is open for every one.

Very useful article. It is the first time to know about such US organization doting all these project in the MENA region but i agree with Mr. Aeead-Hillis where is Palestine in this report ?

looking forward for the arabic version. I am very interested in this post.
thank you for making this available

The report is about MENA region so Palestine is include in the MENA countries but maybe they did not list it in this report because they do not have big project over there or maybe they have it in other report.
not sure but thanks for the USAID for such valuable contribution

I also would like to share the arabic version in my own blog. I will link it once it available.
Thank you for such nice work

USAID is very powerful organization, they know what they are doing and very professional . Thank you USAID for all your support to Lebanon and all MENA region. There are a lot to do in our countries still...

Excellent explanation of the USAID huge water program; thank you very much HE Dr. Hazem. I think that water ministries and utilities shall be strongly maintained to get the maximum benefits out of such programs, to coordinate it with other donors programs and to integrate it with its future plans.
This is a very big sustainability issue.

Agree with salameh to coordinate it with other donors and integrations are a challenging task

Oh, I am happy to see my post is not banned. Usually my comments are never showed up in most blogs/forum. Thank you to accept my comment and will use your respective forum.

I fully agree that most people in ME are not aware of such great achievements and contribution from USAID. public awareness is the key issue for all aspects.

Valuable information and thanks for the usaid for their support

Thanks a lot for enlightening us, I think JVA and MOA should be fully aware of this important article

Great article. Many thanks for sharing it

great effort.. there is a potential to increase this barrier reduction through protection

very interesting article, full of useful experience

I read this article and I believe we need to go ahead with PSP as it is more save.
This is indeed very important article and we should do something about this issue ASAP.

Great article, thanks for sharing such information

Hi,
Good question, I believe the drinking water is good if it fit certain level of TDS Today Dissolved Solids in it. So the amount of inorganic salts (nitrates, chlorides, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, etc. I am not the best one but i hope to get more detail answer.
Also not sure if jordan tap water is safe to drink but hope to get answer from local expert.
hope this helps

Good day,
I also want to ask regarding the the RO system. Shall we use it at home ? i mean does the water that come to our home require RO systems?
Thank you if you can answer my question

Dear Naden, Dear Aymen-2, Dear Moustafa: Thanks a lot for the questions and answers. Your questions will be sent to our water quality Expert Eng. Suzan Kilani to seek her opinion.

This is Susan Kilani
Tap water in Jordan is monitored around the clock for its compliance with the national drinking water standard and yes it is safe to drink directly from the tap. The Jordanian standard is derived from the World Health Organization Guidelines for Drinking Water after being tailored to the local context. Given the intermitant nature of the supply people are advised to check their house roof tanks and internal connections.

Tap water is monitored for hundreds of parameters including radionuclides while mineral water undergo less monitoring and there are many articles that consider tap water safer than the bottled water. Bottled water is not necessarily mineral water on the contrary the TDS Is taken away by RO leaving water without the essential minerals for health

The TDS level currently in the tap water of Amman is around 500 mg per litre and hardness is within the healthy limits.
I personally do not recommend having RO at home because that will strip water from the essential minerals leaving water with high affinity to dissolve anything that it comes into contact with. Human body needs the salts and minerals (cations and anions) in their natural balanced form

Just would like to thank all you
I have learned, I was thinking to install RO system but will not do that after I learned that this is not good idea.
thank you for the useful information

I would like to thank all of you. Also Dr. Hazim and eng. Susan,
I really really appreciate your answers. I am so happy to see that I got answer so quickly. That is really great place.
I will invite all my friend to use such nice and useful portal.
Thanks again for your efforts

Thanks for such useful question and answer I also decided not to install RO system in Jordan

Good evening every one,
I am new in this wonderful forum and really happy that we have such useful forum in our arabic countries. I came back to Palestine from the USA for holidays and found out that most of people are using RO system. I am not sure maybe here in Palestine we need such system! Just in case any one can say something about wether we need RO System in Palestine then this is would be really appreciated. I have shared this article into my facebook so also people get to know wether they need it or not in Palestine.
Thank you

thank you Christopher for an amazing useful article

Thanks for sharing the summary of such important event
That is very interesting and if they will really change such poor policies then we can say, yes we are in the right direction.

An average of 56% of subsidies are captured by the wealthiest 20% of the population while a mere 6% is captured by the poorest 20%. This is going to lead to some big changes in policy.

I hope we will see changes in the near future, let us see...

Thank you Susan-Muller: I agree with you and would like to add, if we keep pressing then we will make the change

Nice and great decision.
Hope we see improvement in the neat future.
thank you for sharing the overview

thanks Dr. Armin for sharing such important project. I would appreciate sharing the results on the forum. good luck

Well done Raya, this is the kind of research we would like to see in the ME. Actually we are among the least regions when it comes to research related to Water-Energy and Food Nexus.

That is a very useful paper, I am doing research in Nexus and found very nice publication in the MEWF. Thank you for your contribution.
Yousef

Thanks Yousef. Would love to read more about your research on the nexus, hopefully through your contribution to the MEWF.
Raya

Thanks for sharing such nice paper.
Moner

This is really a very strong study. Thank for the German government for helping our country.
They are honest and the best partners that our government should work with.
Thank you guys for sharing this paper. Honestly when i see this forum and the publications I see that we are going high and high.
Marti.

This the kind of technologies we need to combat climate change. Thanks to the orgnizatoins and teams who prepared such an important study

GIZ is the best, they are working hard to help us
thank you GIZ.