Ammon News - AMMAN (Petra) – His Majesty King Abdullah II launched on Wednesday the $1billion Disi Water Conveyance Project that will provide water to the capital Amman and a number of governorates across the Kingdom.

The project will also support economic and social development in Jordan with an integrated system to improve the water availability in Jordan.

The Disi project, which was implemented with the help of local and international investment, is considered as one of the vital ventures in managing water resources, addressing the problem of water scarcity and resolving it across all the governorates of the Kingdom as it will raise the per capita availability of water from 145 litres to 190 litres a day.

Minister of Water and Irrigation and Minister of Agriculture Hazem Nasser said in remarks during the launch ceremony attended by His Royal Highness Prince Faisal Bin Al Hussein, the Chairman of the Royal Water Commission, that the project will provide the Kingdom with 100 million cubic metres of high quality water annually.

He said water will be pumped to Amman, Zarqa, Mafraq and Irbid governorates at the beginning and will later include the governorates of Jerash, Ajloun, Madaba, Karak, Tafileh and Maan.