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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Five years into the Syrian refugee crisis, the dire water situation in Jordan has only been exacerbated further by an average increase of 25 per cent in the population, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement released on its official website on Sunday.

The statement read "with approximately 85 per cent of Syrian refugees living in host communities, a significant stress has been placed on the delivery of essential services like water supply, especially in the northern governorates of Mafraq and Irbid." Therefore, the ICRC, in coordination with Jordan's Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Yarmouk Water Company, carried out in 2014 and 2015 eight projects to repair critical water infrastructure in selected areas in North Badia and Ruwayshid. These particular areas in Mafraq governorate have experienced additional strain on what were already aging water supply systems due to the sharp increase in population, said the statement.

A total of 150,000 Jordanians and Syrians have had improved access to water in terms of both quantity and quality with the completion of these water projects, the statement added.