US-funded project to transform Zarqa’s water network

AMMAN — Water Minister Hazem Nasser and US Ambassador to Jordan Stuart Jones on Monday witnessed the launch of construction on the $93 million Water Network Project, funded by the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

The project will help transform Zarqa Governorate’s water network by laying approximately 800 kilometres of new pipes that will reduce water leakage, according to a MCC statement.

The funding is part of MCC’s $275 million grant to help reduce poverty through economic growth by implementing development projects, which are managed through the Millennium Challenge Account-Jordan, a company established and owned by the government to manage the grant.