Report highlights Jordan’s heavy reliance on tanker water markets 

Report highlights Jordan’s heavy reliance on tanker water markets 

AMMAN — Jordan relies heavily on tanker water markets (TWMs), which are responsible for 27 per cent of the over-abstraction of its “dwindling” groundwater, according to a recent article published in Nature Sustainability, a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal.

The article, titled “unexpected growth of an illegal water market”, presents the findings of research led by Stanford University scholars and an international team of scientists. 

It revealed that unregulated water sales in Jordan exceed official government well licences by 10.7 fold.